I'm resurrecting this thing.
At one point, more than 15 years ago, I started a blog. I'm writing on it right now. Every once in a while, every few years or so, I would remember it existed and write something else. You can see that my posts jump from 2006 to 2008 to 2014? Some pretty big gaps in there.
Writing for public consumption has always been terrifying to me. I am riddled with anxiety about being judged. I think that, for someone who does this regularly, it's necessary to somehow silence those internal whispers of insecurity and just do it. Just do the thing. Write the words and click "publish."
I also think there's some degree of needing to accept that I will be wrong sometimes. Much of my anxiety about writing in this way is that people will read my writing and hold it against me when my opinions don't hold up to scrutiny, or when I don't have the information necessary to form an opinion worth taking seriously. So, I'll need to forgive myself in advance. Because writing, and putting my ideas out into the world, feels so much better than thinking to myself, maybe jotting something in my "Notes" app, and then letting the moment go. I sometimes promise myself that one day I'll return to that "Notes" app and expand these ideas into larger pieces, maybe songs even, but I never do.
So here I go: bringing this back on 2-22-22. Let's do the thing.
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