Thursday, June 30, 2011

Word baby!

I feel like I have my wings back.  They have been clipped for entirely too long! I haven’t wanted to pick up a “pen” for months or really even in the last two years and now I get excited to to write about my passions and thoughts running around my head. It literally does something magical to my heart. Sweet bliss.

My favorite author, Jen Lancaster, said that writing is like a muscle and the more you use it the stronger it gets. And I had never really thought about it like that but it is absolutely true! It hurts a little in the beginning because it feels like your trying to squeeze your head through a fence and you’re just not supposed to do that! But then there’s a little bit of space made and then there’s room for words and thoughts and ideas and you swirl around in circles in your mind because you’re just so excited about all the possibilities that you can write about! Whew! I get excited just thinking about the endless opportunities I have to pour words onto a blank page and watch it grow and have a life of it’s own. Writing for a writer is like having a child. You nurture, care for, carefully watch and guide and then when it’s all grown up, you let it run free and hope that what you put in it will be taken care of. It is a piece of your heart after all.

So… here is where I will write and share my thoughts, dreams, ideas, adventures and anything else that should fall. Life is good!