Trying Again aka maybe it will work this time

Yes, trying again.

Twice before I started to blog, with the focus on teaching or balancing my life.  Never seemed to work.  I never seemed to have much to say or I was trying to write at the end of the day and was simply too tired. 

Today I revisited the idea of a blog and considered many different options.  I thought about how I write my Morning Pages every day, as prescribed by The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron. I've been doing this since 1994 and with great results.  I find it clears my head and helps me see connections in my life.  It gives me a place to vent if needed, a place to celebrate, a place to think creatively.  When considering this tool in my life I thought, hhhmmmm, what about a blog that I have to write before breakfast?  After all, many writers have used this technique, including poet William Stafford who would write a poem every day before getting out of bed.  And Sarah Ban Breathnac, the author of the successful Simple Abundance, who wrote in a notebook in her bed before getting up, then took her writing to the computer for revision.  This is how you write day by day -- a time, a place, a commitment.

So...Before Breakfast.  Whatever is on my mind.  It might be something profound, a simple poem, a reaction or reflection to a quote or photo or painting or event.  Hopefully I will write with some humor, because that is the hardest thing for me.  And I will allow myself to break that rule, because I have already.  Truth be told, I already had my breakfast today: Van's Steel-Cut Oatmeal with Vermont maple syrup.  Yum.  With a full belly, I begin.