I have decided to put up a blog once a week for the next 52
weeks. It’s a challenge to myself and right now what I need – is a challenge.
You can say it’s a way for me to restart blogging. Dayenu
has been very quiet these days and Dayenu needs a revival. Blogging brought
out a streak in me that did not know existed and I want to revisit that
streak.
Usually I blog and to promote my blogs I put a link on FB.
Then I get some kicks in seeing the number to hits on my blogs. But this 52
week ‘thing’, I hope to keep mainly for myself. I may occasionally put a few
links on FB but mainly this is for me.
As I look at my list of drafts in my blog list, I smile at
the unfinished blogs. This is mainly because I remember the stories that caused
those titles. One plan is definitely to finish up many of those drafts and put
them into the published list.
I also hope that through blogging I will tend to spend less
time on Whatsapp and Facebook. I hope that I can bring back some of the creativity
that blogging encouraged and that got smeared over with the viciousness of
social media and the imaginary world of keeping in touch.
To put down some rules for myself
1.
A blog may be a few sentences. Maybe even just
150-200 words.
2.
A blog may be a poem
3.
A blog may be an incident that happened. A
common everyday incident
4.
A blog can be a few photos with funny captions.
5.
A blog may be a bible verse with a reflection of
how I feel about it and what I have meditated on while reading it.
These rules are also
to encourage me that topic should not be dismissed once put in the head.
As I write this blog I am almost tempted to make this blogging
effort a 365-day thing. Unfortunately, I cannot type anywhere other than my
laptop and I don’t think I will want to be carrying this laptop everywhere. But
while I can, I may blog every single day causing some readers to get bored and
border lining on disclosing every detail of my life.
With this I conclude my first blog and I feel determined enough
to open another word document to quickly type up all the thoughts that have
just crossed my mind.
