Last week I looked through my old "picture-a-week" blog, and that was the beginning. Sealing the deal was this beautiful (fairly eccentric I think...) Sweedish girl on youtube, Jonna Jinton, that I watched this morning, who moved back to her ancestral home and became a full time artist/musician/youtubestar..like everyone else these days I guess. I have no intention of becoming an artist/musician/youtubestar, altough, if I was a beautiful Sweedish woman, I might give it a shot.
Still, there is this part of me, a big part too, that realizes that there is more to life than my job. There is beauty out there, and meaning in that beauty. All it requires is that you pay attention to it. Thumbing through two years of posts (I have done the pic-a-day thing twice) was really enough to convince me to give it a go again. So, I am reviving this old blog instead of starting a new one because, 1: I like the name, and 2. I let it go before it even got started. So, yes, I intend to give this a go again, and yes this blog is for me. It's also for my Aunty Paulette because she says that she likes to read what I write. (In perfect keeping with all good Aunties.) And it is also for anybody that wants to read a little bit about what I see, and maybe what I can create, and definitely my take on all of that. I will try not to get wordy... no one likes a wordy blogger, and I will
try to be fairly regular, although I am vowing to be kind to myself there, otherwise I know I won't keep it up. I am not trying for a giant audience, or to monetize this and earn all sorts of money, or to leave some sort of mark on the world, or even to do this because I think that I am that important.... all that I want to do is to pay attention, and this is how I am going to do that.
I walked Chaucer this morning, and it was really, really beautiful there.
