I must confess to being really tired this evening, so apologies in advance for any lack of coherence on my part and for the potential brevity of tonight’s post. The last two days before I’ve written this blog I’ve played my guitar. I figure that means that I just started a new streak and am up to two days in a row. Tonight I will go for three straight days of “doing” music in some form or another. I don’t want to limit myself to my guitar, but want to broaden to include my flutes and other instruments I have. It represents my desire to get back to doing creative things with my time, and while writing this blog is a creative endeavor, playing my guitar and singing or playing my flutes draws on a different part of me than writing this blog or my morning journal writing. Creativity is a renewable resource, a virtually inexhaustible font. It’s a bit like gratitude: the more you offer it, the more there is to offer.
Tonight I have a request of all of you who read this blog. It is a pretty selfish request and one you could choose to ignore, though I hope you won’t. If you read this blog, even if it’s just this one today, please write a comment below. It can be as simple as, “Yes, I read it.” On some days I write for myself and for my own need to remind myself of the many positive things that surround me that cause me to be grateful. On some days I write out of habit. But on most days I am writing for the reader, because I want to share my thoughts with someone and know that someone is “out there” reading and connecting with what I am saying. Like many humans, I want to know that my words are being read and that, by extension, I am being known and in some way validated. I want to know that I am seen.
It has been quite a challenge to write every day on the same subject for nearly a year (I took a brief break after day 227, so have written 324 straight days.) I am grateful and a bit surprised to still be doing it. And egoic part of me says I must keep writing because my “fans” are depending on me. There is a small handful of people whom I know read this blog every day, some of whom have read every single one of the 552 posts (I posted two gratitude journals on one day, on August 8, 2012, when I was feeling particularly grateful…) My hope when I sit down to write each night–once I get past simply trying to write something that is coherent and even remotely interesting–is that I provide food for thought, inspiration, a bit of humor perhaps. But mostly my objective is to get you, the reader, to think about the things in your life for which you are grateful and/or to learn a little from my experiences and appreciation for the blessings in my life and begin with great intention and purpose to begin to express gratitude for the blessings in yours.
If you read this blog, please take a moment to comment below. Again, you can write as little as a word or two or as much as you want about whatever value you might have gained from reading it. It’ll help give me a little motivation and focus for continuing to write on a daily basis. And now, I’m off to play my guitar for a few minutes. Thank you for being here, thank you for reading. Thank you.
