New beginnings

I had someone comment on a Facebook post that I made yesterday, asking why I was lawyering instead of writing, when clearly that was what I was supposed to be doing. Which really made me think. I love to write. I've always loved to write. It was what I did when I was young because I enjoyed it, and why I majored in journalism in college.

But at some point over the years, I mostly quit doing so.  Blame the busyness of law school, then the busyness of a career as a trial attorney, then the busyness of being a mom. The truth is, it's just a habit I got out of and never quite got back to.

But the truth is, that love of writing never left me. One of the most fulfilling things for me is to write a Facebook post that says exactly what I want it to say, and that makes just the impact I want it to make, and that causes people to think. I've said for the last several years that I create as a form of therapy. When I said that, I mostly meant through crafting or sewing. And that is therapy to me. But as satisfying as that is, it doesn't have the same satisfaction as writing.  I don't know why I ever let that go.

So, with all that said, maybe it's time to pick it back up again. When I decided this today, I went back and found the blog that I kept back in 2009-10, mostly prior to Facebook. It was almost entirely made up of photos of the kids, or my garden, or projects. And it was fun to go back and see how little the kids were, and how cute, but other than a couple of pretty poignant posts about the loss of our dog and my emotional reaction following, it wasn't what I was looking for. So instead of just picking that blog up again, I've started this one.

You will see that the title maybe isn't what you would expect. And there is significance to the title that I chose. I'll explain that in a later blog post.

I expect that this blog will be a bit of therapy for me. I've been learning and working on the idea recently of being vulnerable. And so I'm going to be vulnerable here. So please be gentle. And as I share my heart and my soul with you, I would ask you to share a piece of yourself as well. Because that's what creates connection. And connection is what makes the world most rich.