That I've just published my first new entry in 6 months may have made you wonder where I've been and have I still been writing? My latest post was an excerpt from an email exchange I had with a good ole friend whom I haven't had much contact with the last couple of years though she has been on my mind often. I finally picked up my pen, so to speak, earlier this week and made contact. I suppose I could say that in doing so I was choosing to power up my space suit, making an active choice to nurture a connection rather than to passively let it fade away. In doing so, I have reaped the reward of not only a rekindled relationship but also the reward of prose. So thank you to my Longhorn friend, Jenny, who has doubly blessed my life this week. My absence from the online page does not mean that I am not still around, nor that I am not writing. To the contrary, I've been writing. Oh, I've been writing. I've been writing something longer, with more grit at this point than gratitude though I think in the end product we will find that gratitude is the glue that holds the narrative together.
While I know that no one has been holding their breath wondering about why I'm not posting or if this blogging was just a passing phase, something I wonder frequently, I felt the desire to wave out to my friends in the "electrosphere" and say, "Hello! I'm still here and having fun. I hope you are too and I hope you will continue to follow me as a commit myself to this journey of the writing life. I can't imagine my life being well lived without it. Where ever I am, whatever I do, never doubt that I am writing, too."
