Gazing Fiercely Forward

  I definitely believe in the train of thought that states "Something is better than nothing" and "Perfect is the enemy of good." Those are ideas I'm learning to incorporate into my life to take better care of myself. But in certain situations, I also wholeheartedly believe that if something is worth doing, it's worth taking the effort to do it well. Example 1: I've been knitting for a decade and a half, but if there's one skill I never quite took the time to learn, it's the finishing work, such as weaving in the ends. In my younger days, when I was in a rush to have something finished and ready to show everyone, I made sloppy work of it--after all, it would all be on the inside/wrong side, so who cares if it looks good, as long as it holds? I've been realizing lately, though, that I care . When I look at my older garments, I cringe a little bit. All the knots and loose ends look so amateurish, lacking in grace. I spent so much time on actual

Why'd I suddenly decide to abandon my previous blog, Editions of Me , that I'd been keeping for well over a decade? Have you ever woken up one day and felt like it's time for a change? Well, I didn't just wake up one day feeling this way, but I had been contemplating it for a while. I was 26 when I started blogging in earnest, and as you can imagine, I was a completely different person at 26 than I am now at 40. The blog I started at 26 carries a lot of my past, and at this point, I want to leave it behind. I want to stop looking back at my life and regretfully pondering What-ifs and If-onlys. I want to gaze fiercely forward. What's going to be different about this blog? Not too much--I will still talk about my life. But I'm going to try to just let it be . I tried to take all sorts of different directions with my previous blog, which led to me trying to start branch-off blogs that were more specific, which led to me just feeling really overwhelmed and exhauste