Not Throwing In The Towel

My post about closing the loop yesterday got some interesting comments.  I often talk about beginnings and endings in my writing.  I like to think that my blog posts, when taken together in aggregate, are like a series of journeys.  I start in one place and often end in another quite different from where I expected.  There is a circularity to the process.  An arc that starts with a question and hopefully ends with an answer or even better another series of questions.  These continuous beginnings and endings, these questions that spur a search for answers, sometimes leave my audience bewildered.  So let me say it clearly.  I am not throwing in the towel.   Although I may reach an ending to a thought or even a long journey, I have no plans of shutting down the blog.

I can’t even imagine not writing in the public sphere.

History

Although I may talk loosely of new beginnings.  When it comes to blogging, I have a long history.  My first blog post was written somewhere in 2005 and was part of a companion to my web site selling art work.  After six months, this transitioned to a medical blog which is still alive even today.

There is no question that my writing prowess waxes and wanes.  Some years I write daily, others I write a few times a month.  No matter how sparse my writing schedule may one day become, I am not throwing in the towel.

I know it is hard to believe, but my daily blog posts will not go on forever.  At some point I will likely lengthen out to posting a few times a week.  I don’t know when that will be.  It may be tomorrow, may be next year.  I will go wherever whim and necessity take me, but I will not stop altogether.

Meditation

As I have said before, writing is my life hack.  It is my daily meditation.  I’m not throwing in the towel because it adds greatly to my sense of joy and security.  There are few things that keep me so emotionally balanced.  The reason is because my words are always there.

They are there in good times and in bad.  When I am discussing a huge financial win or a shocking medical loss.  I have no other healthy way to dissect my feelings.  To parse out the uplifting and unwind that most hurtful.

Words are like air and sentences are like water.

I need them both.

Community

This space.  This blog. It is my community.  A place for the exchange of ideas and the bidirectional flow of intimacies.  We can share each others wins and losses.  You can hear of mine and know that I am both human  and fallible

No, I am not throwing in the towel.  I find too much value in this process of writing and interacting with the world.

I hope you find some value here too.

Final Thoughts

I know that occasionally my writing makes you think that I am changing directions.  That I am moving on to bigger and better ventures.

Hopefully I am.

But I am not throwing in the towel on this blog.  Too many good things come to my life when I express my thoughts and opinions and publish them out into the ether.

The next few months will bring all sorts of new ventures, trials, and tribulations.

I hope to keep sharing them here with you.