Sunday, October 13, 2013

And so, we get started. Again.

I started this blog a long time ago and never quite got it off the ground. 

I always felt that if I was going to write I needed stuff. I needed a what, and whys, and how. Most importantly I needed who. Who was going to read my blog and what would that who want to read about. 

I come to realize that this isn't about any who. It's about me and about what I want to write. Some days it may be something small that made me smile. Other days it maybe some long hidden rant. 

I have another blog. It's my family blog. The journey of how my husband and I finally became a mom and dad. It's the recipes that make us smile, and the joy of having a baby boy in our home. 

This blog will be about me, mostly. Because it's often hard to separate who I am from those I truly love. 

I don't have much else to say so I will leave you with this: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8sNI194y08

Because often I wake up thinking there are one too many mornings in a week. And then I am filled with a rush of happiness at the thought that this is my morning, joyful that I have another morning. 

And I sit with my coffee, and my sweet baby in the background, letting this song guide me. All the while knowing that today is the day that I give and keep all the smiles. 



Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Odds and Ends





First, listen to this: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmXslBjoffs


Strings transform everything... 


I've always loved the strings, and the range of emotions that they seem to encompass. 

Pandora found this for me, and I think I love this version best of all... 

There is a hurried melancholy to the whole song... a pervasive sadness...

It fits tonight.... sometimes everyone and everything just feels so far away, and you feel so closed off. There is an ache for someone to understand but it seems like none of the words are right... then a song like this appears in it's perfection. If I could tell you how I feel it would be like this 

I wish I could cover my floors with paper and let the song move me ... it would be produce such a beautiful sadness....





Monday, September 20, 2010

Titles and Hellos

Hello!

I think, more than anything, I started this because I needed a place to put down my thoughts. You'd think a journal of some sort would do the trick. Sadly, I spend way too much time in front of a screen. One day when I have the time to wander and write I will... until then this will be it!

This will mostly be about me and my life: new recipes, random rants, pictures, thoughts, music whatever I feel like. Maybe at some point it will streamline.

Thinking of a title was the first hard part. I suppose if it out grows me I can always start again, but I like the thought of how experience isn't always first hand. Experience by extension came about when my brother suggested it would make a good band name, and I possess almost no musical ability. When thinking about this, I realized anyone who reads this will be experiencing my life, my thoughts, my senses by extension- it fit perfectly.

Of course, what followed was the heebie jeebies about my first post. Who would read it, do I want people to read it, what would people say... and on and on. Finally, it didn't matter who read it, because I just needed to write.

So, I'll begin with hello. What follows may be a rush of expectation, but it's a start.