blogtober 2021

Saturday Evening Post, 10/2/21

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Blogtober Day 2: Weather

  • I caught up on a lot of ministry business this week.
  • Played with my grandkids. Painted with Lucy. Laughed uproariously with Isaac, because that’s the only way Isaac knows how to laugh.
  • Grocery shopped. I’ve been doing a good job of cooking my pantry and freezer empty to make sure nothing goes to waste, but eventually you have to restock.
  • Started making a kinda radical change in my apartment. We’ll see how it goes!
  • I am bracing for a very long and cold winter.
  • Practiced not feeling guilty.
  • Lauched a Blogtober 2021.
  • Worked into the early morning three nights in a row.
  • Had a couple of great naps.
  • Welcomed the first chilly days and cold nights of Autumn. Almost time for the duvet.
  • Looking forward to Christmas, and doing it differently. Very differently. Really want to spend more talent and time, than money.
  • Accepted myself again as the “very difficult person” my Mother warned Doug he was marrying.
  • Found a new gluten-free flour—my new favorite.
  • Had a few nice Sunday afternoons with the kids at the beach, trying to fly kites and chasing the tide. There is nothing like walking bareffot on the wet sand. It’s a visceral delight! I hope we continue to have nice enough weather to squeeze a few more days like these into the memory banks.
  • This year I’ve been thinking about the things I fear that I didn’t know I fear. Fears that are hiding from my consciouness. I don’t want anything to do with Fear.
  • Speaking of Fear, this is Ovaraian Cancer Awareness Month.

So, just a little from view of my past week, or so. Hope you had a good week, and a better week ahead.
❤

Blogtober: Day 2

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BLOGTOBER UPDATES: I listed below all the folks who are blogging during Blogtober. I hope you will visit their blogs and perhaps find someone new to follow, and something good to read. I also included the writing prompts, if you need a little inspiration.

PARTICIPLATING BLOGS:

If I missed you, or you want to join now, please let me know! I don’t want to miss anyone.

Blogtober is HERE!

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Hello, Fellow Bloggers!

I want to invite you all to join me for Blogtober 2021. What is Blogtober? It’s a blogging challenge. For me that has simply meant striving to blog every day. That is a big challenge for me, because it means…

  • …making time to write.
  • …choosing to write over doing something else.
  • …and, forcing myself not to focus on perfection, but on completion.

I think that last point is something any writer can appreciate. We know it’s never going to be perfect, but we always hope it can be better, right? Well, thanks to my imaginary world where perfect sentences flow into perfect paragraphs, I’m a better editor than a writer, and that bums me out.

Hence, Blogtober—a chance to give that editor a break and just enjoy communicating through the written word the way I did when editing meant turning an e into an a, like when I was a kid sending letters to my friends with S.W.A.K* scrawled across the back of the envelope. The only thing that mattered was getting that reply in the mail as fast as possible.

A FEW INSTRUCTIONS
Now, some folks who host Blogtobers come up with writing prompts for each day. I wouldn’t want anyone who joins this to feel obliged to write to a prompt, but sometimes a little inspiration is needed. So, I will post my version of writing prompts at the end.

Remember, if you’re just starting out, a blog post is what you decide a blog post is, whether it’s five words or 5,000. Read this post from a few weeks ago, if you need some encouragement: CLICK HERE Also, there is so much out there on how to blog, how to start a blog, writing advice, blog tips, Blogtober, etc. Do a little research. Keep it free, though. It doesn’t have to cost you anything to blog.

If you are going to join me in this effort, please comment below with your blog site. I will share your blogs throughout the month to make sure everyone has a chance to check out your work. Please, feel free to share the graphic above and invite other bloggers to join the challenge.

I guess that’s all there is to say. I really hope you’ll join me, even if you join late and even if you know you won’t be able to post daily. And, I really hope someone reading this will be inspired to launch their first blog, or revive their old blog this month. That would make me very excited!

Looking forward to reading lots of blogs this month!
❤

*S.W.A.K. is supposed to mean Sealed With A Kiss, but my friend Irma was very clever. She said it meant Sealed With A Knee. She also came up with the classic S.W.A.B.—Sealed With A Band-Aid, applying an actual Band-Aid to the envelope. I was so impressed. Irma, Misty, and I wrote each other all that summer. We looked forward to starting Jr. High together, but Misty and I ended up moving. She and I lost touch, but Irma and I wrote each other for a couple of years. They were the best!