I started this blog with good intentions. I was going to write something here at least 3 times a week. It seemed like a good idea at the time. A great idea even. I like to write and this blog afforded me the chance to write.
Ah but even the best of intentions can go awry.
I haven't written a blog post for several weeks. There are several reasons. I like use the word "reasons" instead of "excuses" because it makes me feel both less guilty and less lazy about letting things slide. Although I admit that for me the two words are often one in the same.
Anyways...one reason for my lack of writing is I was/am dealing with some health issues that have been sucking up all my time and energy. Another is that my motivation and enthusiasm for most things, not just this blog, has been waning. Part of that is due to lack of energy and part of it is just a general feeling of malise that I can't seem to shake lately. I think the weather is partly to blame. I am dreading the oncoming of winter (which comes quite early here) and the turn in the weather has instilled a general case of the blahs in me. And the final reason for no blog posts is that I simply don't feel like I have anything worthwhile to say. Writer's block? I don't know. My life feels quite stalled and stagnant right now and that feelings seems to have crept into my ability to write.
That last reason probably isn't very true but I have convinced myself of it. I am sure I could find a hundred things to write about that might be interesting to me, if not to anybody else. A few days ago I read a blog post about someone buying themselves new towels, which sounds dull but I found it disportionately interesting. I have always thought that writing blogs themselves have inherent value for the writer, even if they don't have an interested audience. I guess the point I am trying to make is that I am going to try to find something interesting to write about here and keep this blog a bit more regular.
I spent my Thanksgiving Day holiday yesterday (in Canada we celebrate in October--one day I might actually take the time to research why it is different from in the US since this is something I have wondered about for many years) in a national park filled with wild, free roaming buffalo. I have seen buffalo before but they have always been penned up in a coral. Not these ones. Not exactly what I expected to be doing but it was a pretty amazing day.
I guess I do have things to write about even when I don't think I do....
