let's try this again

If you create a blog and no one writes on it, does it still exist? Yes, because the internet saves everything. Which is, of course, both good and bad. If you start a blog and then don't write on it for almost four years, it's all still magically there! But if you post a picture on social media, four years later that's still there too.

I started this blog on a bit of a whim, with all these ideas of what I was going to do with my time and energy. Guys, I really thought I was on to something here. I had some clever ideas, I was working on some interesting projects, surely that would all come together. That's all you need, right? Ideas and projects! Nope.

When I ended up going in a different direction, it did not occur to me that I could post about it on my blog. I thought: "This blog is about art, and that's not really what I'm doing right now." And even more than that, I've again started something with gusto and then fizzled out. I fizzled out fast on this one.

This summer we moved from Colorado to Virginia. I was a pretty big baby about the whole thing to be honest. Once it was all said and done and the crummy bits of moving were over, it wasn't so bad. The area of Virginia we live in is really nice and the kiddos are thriving at their schools. The good thing about moving is that you get a fresh start. New people with no expectations, new opportunities and new routines. I knew Jonah needed that fresh start, I didn't realize I needed it too. We spend more time together as a family, eat more meals around the dinner table and laugh more. While Colorado was so good to us, we accumulated a lot of stress there. Moving allowed us to leave some of that behind. It also allowed me to take stock of where I was spending my time and redirect my energy. So I pulled this blog out of a dusty corner of the internet and decided to give myself another chance at a little writing.

This post took me an absurdly long time to write. Like, sitting for days staring at my computer long. "I'm trying to do this thing again" shouldn't be that difficult to say. Really, it's not. The hard part is saying "remember that blog I started and, like so many other things, didn't finish?" Well then, moving on...