Write a Blog, They Said

Write a blog, they said.

It’ll be fun, they said.

And I’d like to say that it was that simple. That it was easy. Simple. And that I had no issue with starting a blog. That it was second nature, and I knew this was going to be the easiest thing ever. But that wasn’t the case.

First of all, without my husband’s help, the formatting of this blog page would be sorely lacking in many ways, because, let’s face it, I’m not the most tech savvy person on the planet. He’s good at this stuff, and, well, to put it mildly, I am not. Formatting is not my strong suit even though I can organize, design, and even supply the basic idea of what I want something to look like. He, however, has to do the work. And I get to take the credit for the blog. (‘Cuz, they said it would be fun, you know.)

Anyway…here we go…

Here’s my blog. And I don’t know what all will get written here. I know what I want it to look like, but I do not know if I will be able to produce the effect that I want.

I have stories that need to be told. I have things that I need to say. Things that might help someone else who is going through what I have already gone through. And if that is true, I would be amiss to keep it inside.

Writing is easy for me. But some days, some days I can’t make the words come out right. They don’t want to go on the page. My fingers won’t type. The keys don’t click. Instead I look at the empty page and I wonder what that page needs to say. And then I back out of the page and decide that tomorrow is soon enough for the words to be written.

I don’t have answers. In fact, I have more questions than answers. Somedays I have way more questions than answers. And I don’t know what to do with a lot of those questions, so I ask them, and I try to ferret out the answers by writing about those questions. Sometimes, I hit the mark. Sometimes, I totally miss the mark. Sometimes I have no idea what I am doing, or even what I know.

However, I do know is life has a way of teaching us lessons that we don’t want to learn, and I know that life is a hard teacher. And sometimes we need to share the lessons we learn, even the lessons we fail miserably at, with others so they aren’t sideswiped by the onslaughts of life.

Maybe that’s the reason for the blog. I don’t really know. I just know this blog is the next step on a pathway I’ve been on for a very long time.

I’m not perfect. I will never profess to be perfect. I will make mistakes. I’m human. But I will always be trying, every day, to be better than I was the day before.

So here goes. I’ve decided to it’s time to be silent, out loud.

Welcome to my blog.

Rebecca Martin

Silence is a source of great strength. ~Lao Tzu