Fourth- Fruit, flowers and...appliances.

As of April 10 I will have been writing in this blog for four years. FOUR YEARS. This is just astounding to me for some reason.

Four year anniversaries call traditionally for fruit and flowers, which are quite nice, and in modern times, for appliances, so if anyone wants to pony up a high-end espresso machine in April? Well, thanks.

This has been an amazing, intense, difficult, depressing, exciting and very, very daily four years. I've had some awesome experiences and some really, really shitty ones. I've been down in some psychic - and one or two literal -holes for part of it and I've felt at times like the scene in front of me was never ever going to change.

Journalism graduate school really hurt this blog. It took the time I had to write and sliced it into less than half, and often times it jockeyed for time and space with other, graded or deadlined writing, and this was the first to go.

I went to an event last week that in positive and negative ways inspired me to try again. At the very least it motivated me to create again, to talk my way into whatever is supposed to come next. So for the next two weeks, I'm going to commit to writing every day. I may post more than once, I'm not sure. I'm going to go back to the beginning and unearth some things. I'm going to dig around in the dirt of why I started this in the first place and see what comes out on the other side.

It's appropriate. The spring equinox just occurred. The season's changing. My travels have stopped for a few weeks. I'm digging into work and teaching and writing and learning again. I'm aware of the need to be mindful and make plans.

So I hope, if you've been around for awhile (thank you) or if you're new, you'll understand what's going on as a process of excavation, and of setting out on a new path, an overdue one I think. Or maybe I'll just kind of recycle old new Facebook memes, because that 25 Things thing, that really had some juice left in it, I think.

#14 I really, really like espresso, and the lattes it produces when milk is involved. Thanks.

Comments

[Sarah, Goon Squad Sarah]

I'll bring you some bananas.

Good enough?

[Laurie]

I'll take bananas from you, sure. I could probably use the potassium.

[Karen]

I'm glad you're re-committing yourself to this space. I think the expression is really healthy for you. Keeping your shit inside just pushes you to the edge that much sooner. Step away from the edge...

[amy]

so happy for you and congrats on 4! xoxo