I Totally Blew Off.......

(Belated Birthday Roses for the Blog!!!)

...... December 21st,  the One Year Anniversary of this blog.
I have been semi-successfully blithering, ranting and occasionally dropping words of wisdom and pictures that range from the completely boring to the inane to exceptionally interesting for over 365 days. Art, life, speedbumps, the happy, the sad.....it all has deposited itself here for over a year.
There was this dull grinding of rusty wheels the other morning, a great creaking sound to say the least, the brain-gears attempting to think and that was when I checked the archives for the first post I put up. (I assure you, it is NOT---ABSOLUTELY NOT-- worth taking the time to find...save yourselves gentle readers, don't go there...)
Holy Moly....over a year. This is something for me because my attention span, as I have discussed here before, is short to say the least. Occasionally nonexistant is a much better description.
And yet, here we are. What is it about this thing called a blog that draws one in? That holds the attention, and committment to posts is not a requirement but a pleasurable experience?
And tinkering with the little doo-dads on the sidebars.....and trying to make things a bit better.....move this here, that there. You know, it is sooo much easier than rearranging furniture! ;-) Plus you can delete what you don't like, as opposed to the rest of our lives! HA!
I discovered the hard way that some widgets conflict with others, Blogger---just like us---has bad days, items at the bottom of the page make it load faster. I probably will never try to change back to two column Minima due to almost having a massive panic attack messing with the HTML code to transfer it to three column! LOL! Geek, I am not. I wish I was.....
Mostly I've discovered a lot of other people with wonderful blogs and interesting words, beautiful artistic expressions and delightful sharing of life experiences. Maybe that's what keeps this blog-engine within me running. Maybe it is another form of creative outlet that has grown and developed a life of it's own. Maybe it is a nice substitute in moments like these when I still cannot access my art or fiber art supplies nor feel like using them. (fatigue is still a major factor, but I am ambulating!)
As to the new year of the blog, the thought of redoing some of the page is intriguing; cleaning things up, paring down so I can load it up again with blog-stuff. LOL! Like my house, like my studio......the temptation of one silly item more! One bit of digital fluff, cram one more photo on the page....oy. I never learn.
I love sitting in the morning connecting with friends, thinking what tidbit of inane amusement might make others laugh. I occasionally like making us all think (or try to). I love sharing the process of work. Perhaps, when all is said and done, this is just an extension of me, put out there to connect with others who share and chat and enjoy what they do at the keyboard. It becomes our connecting place, our creative space, our place where the artistic marks we make are letters and a foreshadowing of what we will do in real life.
It is a very rewarding place to be, now, isn't it?
To you all, I bid you......

Pax.