a common thread
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I’ve struggled to write today’s post. There are several topics I wish to write about, but none are quite progressing how I wish. A passing comment from a few months ago has been bouncing around my head these past few days.
It was a comment on how I took a seemingly unrelated group of material and found a common thread and united them.
I often feel that my interests here on Penguin Girl seem equally unrelated and overly scattered. Yes, I write a good deal about books and fibre, but am not sure if I’ve (pardon) yet found that underlying thread that unites them all. As I begin to approach a life milestone (it’s still well over a year out) and may soon face some forks in the road, I feel the need to find that connector.
I expect that my writing here may begin to reflect upon those various areas of which I am currently involved and evaluate and then reevaluate if I am where I wish to be and how to console myself when I find I am not. I am not sure how personal I’ll get. I hope that I’ll be able to maintain a degree of separation and find ways to make the process I’m taking useful for others.
My journal writing is often stream of consciousness which I’ve often likened to river rapids which twist and turn and churn every which way and eventually straighten out to calmness. I tend to write in bursts and then do not reread what I’ve written for months or years. It definitely makes editing and revisions difficult.
I think I’ve found a new journal “prompt” in finding common threads…
on this day...
- would you like a cake? - 2006
- thank you - 2006
- Finished swallowtail shawl #1 - 2006
- automated del.icio.us import feed - 2005
- links for 2005-12-16 - 2005
“…reevaluate if I am where I wish to be and how to console myself when I find I am not…” Man do I know this song and dance. It’s simply wretched.
What Lysa with a Y said… and a thank-you for letting me share and try to focus along -