do what you love

I have been so inspired by this, this and this in mind.  Then after reading this post today regarding not looking at blog stats, I am deciding a few things for myself.  I decided I finally understand why I continue to blog.  Why do I keep a little blog in a tiny speck of internet?  Read on and hopefully I can put in to words my thoughts. 

It is so important to be authentic.  I know this but I think that I need to think about this more and then not think at all and just do, just live, just be me.  There is something so correct and comfortable as when natural beauty is made.  I mean, in the outdoors, in the home, out in the world, when things aren't forced things are just better.

I am out of my element.  Living in a big, very exciting and busy city, I have totally lost my ability to enjoy many aspects of my life.  It is sad to me but lately I have been making huge efforts to change this and refine myself, find real, experience real, and add to the real in the world.

I would never say this in my past but I can almost say out loud that I think I am an artist.  I love to create and I do.  I am fine tuning my eyes each day as my hands and mind work together to create.  But this still means that in my conversation and in my writing (like in this blog) I am just as naturally creative.  I want to see the results more of my efforts.  I want to see the natural and beautiful in things again.  I want to add the what little realness there is left in this world. 

The post mentioned above reminds me to think about why I blog.  Why do I, you might ask?  I blog because I love this way of creation and expression.  I love to see and to experience the things I am going through, good and not.  I love to have a place to show my creations since my home is not conducive for such displays.  My blog is what I want my home to be like, in appearance, and in word and in color and in authenticity.  It is an extension of me and my home.  It is what is real to me.  As I learn and experience, do and create, my blog showcases this to me and all who read.

I want readers, of course, merely friends to share in the goodness of my efforts and to benefit from them as well.  I want real things to share with people and to find commonalities between new friends who visit my space.  I want a warm and inviting and most authentic place for any to come to see goodness and realness.  I want to be silly and frivilous yet every bit as grounded and open.

I blog because I need a place to be real, to see the real from my life, and to share the real.  After all, we really do need more "real" in this world!  




* This is not the norm for me to do such a thoughtful post.  I don't expect this to be read word for word and I don't expect that it will mean the same to you as it does to me but that is just the point of the post.  I am writing this blog for me.  I am writing with all the reality that is current in my life.  This is the authentic truth to me.