Here I am

again. I came to blogger/blogspot to see what one of my dear friends had been up to, and thought I would stop by my own page. Not that there's much to see...

I haven't been writing enough. The other day I was practically tearing my hair out because I couldn't find my blank journal--as if I had nothing else to write on/in. There's plenty of paper around, a keyboard, and a screen. I'll find the journal eventually. I must write!

But I don't like the feel of this thing I've started...it's too dark. I need light and air, the mountains, the sea. I need to focus on the beautiful, to celebrate it. I need new! I know that there are all sorts of horrible things going on in the world (when isn't there?), things that require our attention, things that we need to work to change. I know, I know, I know. Everywhere I turn someone is pointing out the problems...many times that someone is me.

So: let's toast to friends, poetry, pretty pictures, light through the leaves, dew on the eaves, and fresh (organic!) raspberries. (I've been eating them by the pint this past week. I think I'll have some right now...) Let's look out past the horizon. Amazing things are happening there--and right here, too! Let's see what we can do.

More than a year later, an appendage to my last post.

So I checked my hotmail today and was clicking through the smattering of action alerts I receive on a daily basis, and I came across one from Food and Water Watch that reminded me: hey, I have a blog! Well, kind of. I have a blog but I don't write blogs. Blogs. I love that word.


Anyway, Sign this petition--unless you like salmonella in your McNuggets, that is.