Thursday, July 21, 2011

Two ways about it

I have asked myself lots of good questions about blogging lately and why and how I am here now finding myself routinely coming to the bright screen on armchair evenings, excitedly finding my flow in words and images. My ideas for blog posts are so many fold now I cant keep up, literally I simply cant. I love writing and I have thoroughly enjoyed the process of building this blog. I yearn for more time to spend at it, its often stolen late hours. So why am I here in another kind of network?



 I have found here a place for my words, and the further along I go, it becomes truer and closer to who I am. My voice is here and I care about who is reading and what I am saying, imagining I can have some kind of impact in my way offering something within me, that I know exists, and try to portray and express it in such a way that it becomes meaningful, and hopefully inspiring. I do this for me, to write and play, but I am also doing this for you. I am trusting that there is a part of me that reaches you, and that that is a good thing, and whatever happens I enjoy the part I play for now.




I imagine you and wish you so very well. I have always wanted to do a kind of  something: ) like this. Here I can be my own writer, writing my own story, decorating my story with images and great songs that I have chosen, filtered through with poets I love and periodically my own attempts of rhythm and pattern in both word and line. My art is coming soon, my drawings will come out of the studio and onto these pages and I will ask for your attention, just a little while to share with you this process. Why ever not? Would I be human if I did not want to share my experience. Humans have always had a story to tell, thats what we do, and we dance and sing and make art and cook and create things and once upon a time, we all lived together in a familiar community in an interdependence that was our survival, we all worked together, and we all understood that very well. 







And, as I strive forward, trying to raise my daughter, widowed and brimming with art I want to make, and deeply inspired to live a holistic way, I yearn for that community without having realized it at all. I have placed myself here like I did on facebook because thats what we do in some way or another, and without allowing ourselves to be consumed by all the extraneous stuff on here, online, there is community. I need to tell you my story and listen to yours, and know that we are all in this "beautiful and terrible place" all together, sharing the wonder of our experiences. Blogging and facebook is a proverbial fire we sit round. WAIT!!!!!!!If that concept disturbs you, Dont shy away aghast, it is a warm fire still, it is beautiful HERE, even if it is wired and separate it is bright and you are welcome. 




If much of our communities disintegrated from our natural mechanisms of communing through industry and technology, we have rediscovered them again, through technology ironically. What survivors we are, what spirits we are, finding heart and soul everywhere we go. Maybe greed brought us online, for more time, less energy, more energy, more convenience, more time, however you choose to look at it. Something good comes of everything eventually.





I am sitting alone in the night writing, I am here and you are there, we are together. This can be our evolved selfs, having caught up with this technology. We have our tribe, reaching further afield, across oceans to each other over common ground and new ground. 

For me this is a nocturnal space, by day, I see my local folks in school and village, in family.


There are two ways to look at everything, I believe this now to be an absolute truth. In such an unsure time, we can be sure of impermanence, we loose and we gain. Everything passes and we can watch, and see, look and know, and if we want to, and if we can, we can love everything about it. 
I can sit at my computer for hours if I like, writing my experience, and notions of things, my memories of how things were or could be and of this most perfect now in all its artistry, sharing it with you, if you like and it is a lively thing to do so. 

A big beautiful Thank you to all readers and bloggers inspiring me, encouraging me and teaching me. xxx 

12 comments:

  1. What a fabulous post - "something good comes out of everything eventually" I concur! Life is always conspiring in our favour! Thank you for sharing your beautiful open heart, I'm beginning to feel part of a community here also, connected to some truly wonderful women.
    Looking forward to seeing your artwork - I like the tantalising glimpses here.
    All sweetness to you x

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  2. You have a marvelous optimism! Sometimes, I get lost in the overwhelm of sadness and insanity, the speed and pressure of life in the States. I dream of being in a garden or among the weeds of your photos, with nothing to do but listen to the rustling of the wind in the trees. When I become discouraged, it is often my internet friends who revive me. This is indeed our gathering place, and as much as I despise digital technology, I'm grateful for the connections I've been able to make, the like-minded friends who live thousands of miles away. Best wishes, Puny

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  3. Wow. you have such a beautiful way of explaining the good stuff of blogging and reaching out online, of new communities and togetherness. in any we can, that has to be a wonderful thing for this planet as long as it is positive, inspiring, growing. Your words here certainly contribute to such a community. I am truly loving your blog.

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  4. Thank you for leaving such a lovely comment on my blog and as a result I am now looking at yours. How funny to find you are in Ireland. My mother is staying from Northern Ireland at the moment and sadly she is leaving today...always difficult. I love your blog and will read more of it later when I have abit of time. Good luck with your artistic exploits... I shall follow you

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  5. how funny one of your blog faves is my best friend at Sweetwilliam

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  6. I'm going to link to your blog on mine. You write with a lot of heart, and I look forward to seeing more of your writing and art. Thanks for leaving such a lovely comment on my blog, and for being the positive warm and creative person you are.

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  7. Thanks so much Lou, Puny, I also yearn for the Urban: ) It will all swop again sometime maybe, MoonshineJunkyard, you are soo kind to say such things, And Thankyou so to Ali ( whom I discovered through the sweet william blog) and HKatz too, lovely!!! I am so pleased to have you all visit, very glad indeed. Gosh this is great xx

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  8. Hey Liz! I think you've quietly and beautifully expressed a profound truth here. And am delighted to pull up a fireside chair with you! xx M

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  9. Hi Elizabeth, thank you for stopping by my space and commenting so thoughtfully on my $ post. You have written so beautifully what I'm sure many of us bloggers feel. I'm missing my blogspace at the moment as I have so many realtime responsibilities filling it - but am looking forward to posting again soon I hope.

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  10. p.s. I mean this post is written beautifully...about how it is a community space, y'know?!

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  11. i am visiting this morning, following the link you left on my blog like cyber bread crumbs. i can hear your meditation practice in your writing voice, the way it contains space and silence, and you also do something that i treasure whenever i find it in narrative...that way of making time STOP with just a few words. in this post, that word was "widowed". thank you for exhibiting the bravery to be real and raw...it is indeed a characteristic of what i love the most about the members of my "tribe" that i am so lucky to have found online. thank you too, for allowing the internet to be something that connects, rather than another temptation that nature loving folks should shun. i look forward to coming back here often. xo

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  12. Hey Liz, so lovely to read your words....beautiful and real. Yes...we all have a story...thanks for sharing yours...was relaxing to read and listen to your music. Franci

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