Blogging and intentions and things.

Ok so it's been a long long time since I last logged in and then successfully wrote and published something.

I have thought about it. I have thought about it a lot - but there's always something in the way: moving; work; tiredness; illness; lack of inspiration; anxiety that what I have to say isn't meaningful enough; writer's block etc etc.


I just had another brain wave: I know! I'll separate out my blog into clear sections: personal, travel, feminism etc.

I don't even know if I can do that on blogger. Maybe I can. I'll certainly give it a go. I used to have a writing blog where I posted my god-awful poems (yes I had that phase - I gave it a go, anyway) and some short stories that actually on rereading weren't as bad.  I still do, cause I don't think I'd be ok deleting it outright, but it's on complete privacy lock down so you can't get to it!

The point of a blog is to share into the void.  The void rarely listens or writes back.

Then I watched Julia & Julie for the first time on netflix and was like "omg, we do cooking and stuff, maybe I could do a food blog too" and then of course I'm like, but when would I do it?

I also have some thoughts on teaching and my practise and the things I've noticed in others'  (I am a mentor to two trainees on the second half of their first placement. How bananas is that?!)...  But again, I'm not sure this is the platform?

Maybe I should stop trying to organise my life into boxes.  My friend has this with instagram. She has all her amazing photography on there, but is never sure whether to post that gorgeous shot of her food that she wants to remember, even though instagram is THE place to do that - just because it doesn't fit with the rest of her serious stuff. My instagram is a mess. It has make up bits, travel photography, sunsets, sunrises, random hilarious stuff I have seen... it is not organised at all.

So why do it with my blog? I don't know - maybe to give me a bit more sense of focus.  I want to write. I enjoy writing. Maybe by having a couple of sections with clear focus, I can then at least keep some parts more regularly than others.

So yeah. Watch this space.