Life of Wry

Time for a picture change.  Backyard nectarine tree in full, gorgeous flower. Though, funny, the color scheme of my last wintry picture and this spring picture is pretty much the same.  And matches my profile photo, to boot.  Bonus.

So, I am missing blogging.  I realized a couple days ago, that the daily blogging that I committed to last year was great for bringing me to the present moment.  It connected me to the seasons, to what’s going on around me, and made me think actively about my daily life.  Plus, it was really fun.

I was quick to criticize The Great 2011 Daily Blogging Experiment for being less than creative, less than edgy.  It was not risky enough, nor writerly, I thought.  In some ways, that’s true, but I miss doing it anyway.  So I’m going to wrap up this other writing project (The Great 2011 Nepal Travel Blog), which is so time consuming (but fun, you should see my office right now–maps and notes and travel books and travel journals everywhere), and then return to something more regular and bloggy. ‘k?

As Walt Whitman said,

“…read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life…” 

Which, I have no idea what he meant by that, but it seems relevant.

And actually, here’s the entire quote, which is lovely:

“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.” 

See you soon.