Midway Points: Inspirations and Revelations

I am grateful to have been blogging for so long, grateful for many reasons. I often go back to re-read old blog posts--by often, I mean at least two or three times a week. I go back to see what I was thinking/doing, to find recipes, to find rough draft ideas and inspirations, to spark my brain when I feel I have nothing new to blog about. This morning I found this blog post about a poem idea I forgot I had for a poem called "The Holy Spirit Takes a Holiday"; I haven't finished the poem, now, a year later, but I still have the rough draft.This meandering made me think about a summer project, making a rough draft into a finished draft each week. And yes, that's one of my new year's aspirations that has fallen apart as the year progressed (this January blog post has details about my specific intentions for 2026). But that's the joy of early July--there's still time to adjust my trajectory.Speaking of inspirations, during my driving to the grocery store yesterday, on NPR's Fresh Air, I…