Rediscovering Physical Journaling and Creative Pursuits

It’s been over a month since my last blog post. I had decided to step away for a bit and focus on the physical world around me, as I felt like I was living too much inside my digital artifacts. And once you step away from writing for a while, it slowly becomes easier and easier not to write anything at all. Every now and then I’ll come across a topic and think, this would make a good blog post, and then immediately stop myself from writing it. Part of that is probably the thought of, who actually cares what I write anyway? But every so often I get a lovely email from someone who read one of my posts and resonated with it, or someone signs my guestbook, which I always appreciate. And then I remember that while it’s a small community, there are people out there who relate to what I write in the same way I relate to what others write. I also stepped away from my RSS feed for a while. I subscribe to a lot of personal blogs, and I needed a break from that too, so I deleted my RSS reader…