settle in

I’ve been struggling with how to approach this blog. My instinct is to look for some official source on “how to write blogs.” I remind myself that it is intended to be a journal so treat it like one. I don’t need each post to contain some ultimate lesson in the meaning of life. I can just sit down to write, settle in, and write about what naturally comes up.

I doubt myself thinking, what do I have to write about? My days consist of mostly work and toddlerhood. But then thinking about it more, what does anyone have to write about? We’re all going about our day-to-day. December 2nd becomes December 14th before you know it. We’re busy but remember that we still need to get a gift for our family’s gift exchange, being reminded with emails with subject lines reading “last minute gift ideas.” I think, oh shoot, is it already last minute?

I think at the end of the day, all of these things are ripe for the picking for blog posts. This is in fact exactly what I’m going for. I’m going for authenticity and realness and aliveness and connection to truth. If I can write on here and people read it and find some ding of familiarity. If this blog can be a practice of slowing down, reflecting, and reminding me of our common humanity, and potentially you too. Then maybe at the end of the day, this blog can be a lesson in the ultimate meaning of life in a small way.