It popped into my head while this morning’s coffee was sinking in: “I should just write, even a little bit, in my blog each day.”
I miss blogging. I miss reading the blogs of the handful of fellow writers I follow. I miss WordPress.
This challenge to myself does not have a time limit, but thirty days is a nice goal because WordPress gives that bit of encouragement through its congratulatory comments every time you reach a milestone number of posts, such as three in a row, or a week, or a month. I will see how long I can make a daily blog entry, even if to say something simple like “It’s sunny today.”
It IS sunny right now, with clouds, and a comfortable zero degrees Celsius outside, here in the Cariboo region of BC, Canada (that’s 32 Fahrenheit for any American readers). Inside is cozy. I woke up to find the heat-activated fan on the woodstove still spinning slowly, thanks to a nice bed of coals. It’s a cookstove, so the firebox isn’t as big as a dedicated heat stove. The most we can expect from it to burn when it’s fully stoked at bedtime is around six hours, depending on the wood.
But back to the thought of my writing challenge. I write every day, one way or another, but not always in a blog post. Don’t you? Can you imagine life without writing? Aside from manuscript works in progress, there is so much more: Grocery notes, items on your to-do list, text messages, social media comments, email, addresses on an envelope, filling in a cheque (there are still people who only accept cash or cheque in my small community), etc.
How awful it would be to lose the ability to write! If I lost my vision and my hands… But, no, I don’t want to think about that.
Suddenly a song by Cat Stevens comes to mind. Have you guessed it before you scroll down to see which one I mean?
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Yes, that’s right: Moonshadow.
I don’t know what tomorrow holds, or if I will even take another breath after this one, so I will see how it goes with this writing challenge.
“Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.” (James 4:14)
Maranatha!