Today’s WP Daily Prompt poses the (timely) question:
Think about something that drives you crazy. Now, think about something that makes you happy. Does it change your perspective?
Ever have the feeling that someone ‘out there’ is actually inside your own head? or heart? As in, thinking your thought, feeling your feeling, saying what you had yet to find the words to express?
So it is with today’s prompt. I appear to have dropped off the blogging radar. And not the first time. This drives me crazy, because it was a simple practice I promised myself: to blog three times/week.
Blogging makes me happy, you see. It gives me an opportunity, however briefly in the day, to focus on something that connects me with a larger world. Like the one whose ideas reflect my own. And yours, whose words might move me to tears or action or flight. The point is, they move me.
And so I am reminded again what I tell my writers, and what I witness each time we hold a reading for invited guests. Our sharing is, in Brenda Ueland’s words, ‘a generosity, not a performance.’ Ah, yes! I do not need to present polished pieces. There are no grades. I am doing this for my own satisfaction. Thanks for the reminder.
And, as Brenda Ueland ALSO said: “The imagination needs moodling — long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering. ” That’s where I’ve been. Moodling.
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Moodling! Instantly adopted into my vocabulary. Makes me feel much better about periods of nothing-much.
Right? Me, too !!! Thanks for stopping by, Helen.
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Like you, blogging makes me happy, especially when I don’t put any pressures on myself to keep it up…
Ah, that’s the secret, isn’t it? Like anything we love, the pressure to do it regularly or well kind of saps the joy from it. Thanks for that reminder, hugmamma.
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