This is what it looks like before the blog is written. White. Empty. Daunting. I usually don’t even log on until I am ready to put finger to keyboard because staring at a blank space waiting for my creativity to happen is depressing and frustrating, causing my head to fill with stress and doubt instead of ideas and inspiration.
Many days things fill in nicely. It takes work but it all seems natural and right. Other times, like today, it’s a major effort and the entire day is spent with a dark cloud of white hanging over my head. It’s very much like life which, ironically, is what this blog is about. A life made up of smooth, easy days as well as the rough and difficult ones.
We’re all filling a blank page every twenty-four hours. Do you find a good mix of long and short, funny and serious, special occasions and the mundane? Do you have nights when you go to bed with unfinished business taking over the cool spot on the pillow? Are you happy with the days you “post”?
Making something out of nothing is never easy. But every day we do. The quantity and quality will vary but we publish new work into the world constantly without even realizing it. But in those instances when the content doesn’t come, we have to make adjustments, don’t we, to get some new perspective so that the words and actions will come.
I hope we all sleep well tonight, having our pillows all to ourselves, our empty space for September 21st, 2018 now replaced with substance and some laughs. Everything else, whether in this blog or this life, is just filler.
