Thursday 28th December 2023.
My dad's birthday. He would've been 89 today. It sounds so old yet I've been out of school for 40 years this year!!! I had a moment of double blinking when I realised this today.
I met my school friend at the local coffee shop again today and when I see her I don't feel old at all. But when she talks about her daughter turning 21, I think she's joking. How can this be? We're not long away from our own 21sts. But here we are 4 decades away from our matric year.
This blog has become a Rusty dog column lately and our runs and walks are my current adventures. The bits in between walks have truly become my recharging time and I didn't realise how much I've needed to just be in this phase of 'what can I watch on the telly?'. There's lots of admin and projects to do and things to sort out but right now, I know I'm where I'm supposed to be.
I realised that my monthly writing project I'd started this year stopped in June when I put out my last short book '56'. It's almost as if I needed to finish that one and that was enough. I know my writing isn't done, by any means because there's loads of ideas and projects bubbling under the surface. However, my daily blogging is like my writing gym, I'm building up those muscles and practicing. I've also realised that my daily running switches on my creative bit in my brain. I get so many ideas that I have to write them out of me.
I've used Facebook to help me find my own personal voice too. Years ago I did a writing course and social media was getting severely criticised by the participants. I disagreed because I had realised how much it had helped me 'speak up' to an audience and sometimes get feedback and listen to my responses. Snippets of information can describe so much ( she says writing a blog with so many words...)lol.
So for now, it's me, the dog, the cats and the remote to see out the remainder of 2023. It's been another fantastic one for me.
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