Twenty-four years ago, on this day, I published my first blog entry. At some point along the way I started to publish a daily entry called "What I Made Today." Some days my daily makings were quite grand. Other times I simply made it through the day. This old pattern of daily makings, with the many nuanced variations, continue to this day. I just don't publish them. They're often part of my daily journaling, which is a blend of words and visual expressions (like the one you see here).
This practice offers me a way to record and explore the ordinary and, dare I say, extraordinary aspects of my daily life. It offers a way to flesh out potential meaning and value (or the lack of).
It's Good Medicine.
And I enjoyed sharing that Medicine.
I consider this - the Medicine bit - and wonder why I don't revive the practice of sharing it. I've attempted such revivals, in various forms, yet none have taken root. And again, I wonder why.
So that's where I am: Wondering. It's a familiar place. Very familiar. It's what I do. I wonder.
I reflect on this blogiversary day, and the history/Medicine therein. I consider the numerology of the coming year (another familiar/daily practice). I mull over the collective verve of the impending calendar-flip to 2026. I vex at how such sharing might feel in this current world, a world so very different from the one of 24 years ago.
I don't know what this all means. I don't know if any attempts at revival will take root. I don't know much. That's a fact. But I do know when the Big Mystery (as I say) tugs at me, it's good to listen, and best to respond.
We shall see. We shall see...
Peace.
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