Welcome Back, Marva!
Gosh…I look around this place and can see the dust. I see the cobwebs in the corners, and all the furniture is covered. Time to make this space livable again.
I took a break from blogging because I was lost. I believe I was trying to make this into something that it is not, trying to emulate all of the successful bloggers that I see constantly day to day. But that’s not me. I don’t want that. What I do want is my space that I carved out for myself a long time ago when I started this blog, a space where I can feel free and say whatever I want, feel how I feel, do what I do. So I don’t care who reads or who doesn’t; what I do care about is that the words I put here mean something to me.
So I’m no longer chasing pavements. I choose to find my center here and be honest with who I am. That’s the way I want to live my life.
I finished my book…the first draft anyway. Now I’m faced with the monumental task of making it into something I can proudly put in someone else’s hands and have them understand what I’m saying. It took me a long time to get over the initial fear of having someone else read my words, but that fear is in the rearview mirror now. When you realize what your potential and walk is to be, fear becomes irrelevant.
I also gave up social networking for Lent. I must admit I did sneak on every once and a while to check to see what was going on. But giving up Twitter and FaceBook helped me to finish my book. It helped me to clarify things around me, and move forward. I wasn’t a big user of social networking anyway, but the time away was refreshing. I listened to a lot of music (I have some words about that Adele CD, just wait) and read a lot of books.
I’m preparing. And it is exciting.
I hope you all are well. Let’s walk our journey, shall we?
-Marva
