Last night I was doing one of my favorite things, sitting on the porch or porch sittin’ as we southerners call it. It sometimes feels like a sham when I call myself a southerner because well Virginia certainly doesn’t feel very southern anymore but regardless of where I live I’m a southerner at my core so there you go. Anyway back to the story. We’d made a quick visit over to my son’s house and while he and his Dad walked the dog and followed the toddler around the yard my daughter-in-law and I just sat on the back porch talking. Of course the future came up after all of our recent trips to RV shows and my mention of “the one we picked”. She quickly was like wait you bought one and to my dismay I had to say no. But finally we have decided on a model and that has brought with it relief and excitement. It moves the dream into the next phase and also stops the procrastination a bit since we no longer can say we’ve got to find the right rig. As she asked questions and I provided half answers one of the things she said was “oh please blog about it” and I quickly replied that I was sure I would since I already had a blog and all, it would be easy. Ha!
So here I sit this morning writing a blog post. If you’ve been following with me for a bit you know that I have zero consistency in this. I have all the best intentions but gracious do I fall short. But don’t we all? Today I didn’t even bother looking to see when the last post was or determine how long it’s been or think of the things I should probably catch you all up on. I just decided it was a good time to sit and write. I’m not good at forcing thoughts or creating content just to get it out there. I’m not good at blocking off time or setting a goal on which day of the week to post or how many times a month to do it. For these reasons I will probably never write a book.
What I am good at is sitting down to write when the mood strikes me. Days like today that comes easy. It’s cloudy, rain is coming though it’s not here yet, I’ve got the fireplace on and a Spotify playlist going that so far seems to be mostly a mix of instrumental jazz. I dig it. My music taste is all over the place y’all so, note to readers, never ask what my favorite genre is. I don’t have one. And just like that I’m at 451 words; yes I checked! I’ve got some other ideas floating around in my brain that would make good posts so hopefully I find the inspiration to get those typed up and you will see them soon.
All of this to say I will blog about it Ali; when we travel, if this dream goes the way we are hoping maybe even if it doesn’t. I love Instagram and spend a lot of time there but often I skip over sharing things because I don’t want to type too much or make the post too long and risk people just scrolling past it. So last night was my reminder that I have a blog already and I need to use it. I hope you still will follow our journey through this life on IG but I also hope you will follow it hear. I’d also love it if you’d share! Share the IG posts that you like. Share the blog post that resonates with you. I don’t do Facebook anymore by choice but that doesn’t mean you can’t share this post there so it reaches more people.
As always thanks for sticking with me so far through so many transitions and I sort of promise to give you more encouraging content….if not well you’ll just continue to get these random posts that were just too long for Insta 😉
~Carla
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