A Zero to Hero challenge – A new element
Yesterday in Pictures
Yesterday
Tag: zerotohero
Why?
I first tried Facebook pages to work on my new journey of putting my thoughts
somewhere other than my head. It didn’t feel right for a number of reasons.
Then I found WordPress. It felt right. Before blogging I was very into developing
various web pages for selling my hand crafts. Blogs seemed the next step for my mind
crafts.
I started with sowhoegrowandknow.wordpress.com to record the antics of our little group of gardeners and our experimental garden. Since it is basically facts with a little embellishment
for interest or to express my excitement, I felt safe and not too out there with my “self”.
Then I decided it was time to to start another on Croneing. Be a little more wild. Step out there even though I might get stepped on.
You are right – “Because it’s an idea you were so passionate about, it motivated you to begin
this new project — there’s something to that.” I always wanted to be a wife and mother.
I loved being a wife and mother for many years. Unfortunately, I did so well at it that they
are all off living their live’s quite well. This left me free of all those responsibilities
and the beginning of a new life to create.
Of course, me being me since childhood, I don’t necessarily follow others footsteps. I seem
to not even take the “road less travelled”. No, I get out the machete and go for
trailblazing. And damn, there are a lot of thorns.
So, as I hope to crone, and grow, and create, and just explore, this second blog will be
the place to right some of it down. I’ve lived a lot of great stories so far and haven’t
written them down and they are beginning to float away.
What do I hope to accomplish through this? Other peoples words often hit a chord in me and
help me decide which direction I want to turn, maybe my words might ring true to someone
behind me. Or maybe my grandchildren’s grandchildren might be interested in an odd woman’s
story.
I do feel like I have accomplished something. I have quit thinking about it and started
blogging. Wherever it takes me, however well or pathetic I do, I have begun.
Day 3
write the post that was on your mind when you decided to start a blog
zerotohero
Zero to Hero exercise
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/zero-to-hero/
What are you about?
I am about creating my life as I want it to be, not what others think it should be. I am about embracing my crone. My goal is to be comfortable in my skin (even as it sags), free and joyful in my heart simple in my mind (ignoring the chatter), passionate in my spirit, and quiet in my soul. I want to satisfy my curiosities, simplify my life, laugh a lot.
Why should they read your blog?
My kids and grand kids tell me if I want to know what is going on in their life to follow them on Facebook. Some day they will be more likely to find out what is going on in my life by following my blog. In the meantime, I hope to find other crone goddesses on their journeys as well as plant seeds for those who follow.
Why are you blogging, rather than keeping a personal journal?
Actually I am blogging AND keeping journals. I was called the “Sticky Note Queen” when working full time. They were right. There were sticky notes attached to everything. Was it the thoughts I needed to write down, or was it the need for bright (and clashing) colors decorating the computer, the desk, the shelves, every report, the calendar. Now, working at home part time, I find even more reasons for notes. Personal notes, work notes, notes for husband (who doesn’t write notes and therefore forgets what it is he is supposed to be doing), notes to go in every package I send out; notes on envelopes, notes on any junk mail, notes on notes, post=its, scrap pieces of paper, legal pads, steno pads. The only thing I don’t write on is myself. My grandmother instilled in my brain at a very early age that writing on yourself equals blood poisoning and that was up on her list close to dancing with the devil and going to hell.
It has taken me over half a century to realize that a writer/blogger doesn’t have to write novels fit for publication. Instead I drew, painted, quilted, knitted, wove, expressed myself through any and all crafts I could find; too intimated to believe I could write and therefore terribly blocked. Another positive of croneing – not much intimidates you anymore. So I begin here.
What topics do you think you’ll write about?
Everything and anything that peaks my interest. Tidbits of early stages of this life, new beginnings, detachment, chickens, surviving, joy, living.
Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
Other souls searching and/or already following their path, their passion.
If you blog successfully throughout 2014, what would you hope to have accomplished?
Being able to lay it all out there without worry or guilt. Expanding my love of reading and writing and art and life through others experiences as well as my own.
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