Is this post not what you thought it might be? No late-harvest vegetables or farmer's market pictures, just these fantastic beings - wheel bugs (Arilus cristatus) - that caught my eye one day in October along the bike path. It was such a find, and I literally spotted them hanging off of a stalk from feet away, they were so big. Of course, there were two, it turned out, and look at the multi-tasking feat they were pulling off...
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| can you still see the bee? |
Remember the bee? Ha ha, no longer. These are pierce-and-suckers and they were in fine form! I fell way behind the others I was walking with. This kind of thing makes me so deeply happy.
Really, it does not take much to make me feel alive.
This writing-every-day thing might be too much for me. First, I am not a great planner when it comes to writing. It just...happens...or it doesn't. And oh, the self-judging. I find myself evaluating my stories - most of them of the mothering-homeschooling genre, naturally - and finding them lacking a good clean finish, a button, "and so I learned the most valuable thing about the totally freaking horrible day we just had! I feel so blessed that our day was so horrible!!" If they end still mired in the horrible, who is going to want to read them?? There are days when I think I won't ever write another post because if I did it would be full of language that my most loyal reader - my mom - would cringe to read. Faced with the daily writing, I'm running up against at least a few hours worth of cringe-worthy material. We'll see where this gets me. I suspect I'll either stick to my goal and you'll read a whole lot of crap with a few aha moments jammed in there - or you won't! - or I'll take a bit more time to find the way to say the things that are floating around in here. For any dear someone who is still reading this seven-year-old blog at this point, you deserve a well-written post or two!
As you might have surmised, I have challenged myself to write a post every day this month. Shoo, what was I thinking?
5 comments:
Dude. I'm your most loyal reader and I'll read anything you write. And look at pictures of weird bugs. Or mushrooms.
Alissa, I think we're neck 'n neck when it comes to who is a more loyal reader, but I won't fight about it!! But I agree - Deb, I'd read anything you wrote (but watch the language!) because you are such a gifted writer and you teach me so much about the world and yourself through your writings. Keep up the great challenge you've set for yourself and I'll keep reading! Love you.
I had a moment when I thought Maybe I'll join you! But, alas, my blog lies dormant still.
But I am still here, reading yours. Love to see more of your lives, your heart, your challenges and joys!!
I'll read anything you write. Anything.
Love you.
when your day ends still mired in the horrible, it lets the rest of us know we are not alone. Your daily writings will show us all that the horrible does end, but we're not alone working through it all. Keep writing lovely lady. I'm catching up with you on here...
xoxoxo
love you
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