I really want to thank everyone who encouraged me to blog. I had my reservations, because I do not live in the world of the internet. I was ultimately judging what I did not know, hoping that people are out there living life instead of reading stuff online. But this is helping me in many ways, and I am humbled.

What I love most about blogging is that no one has to read it. I don’t have to apologize for anything, because no one is obligated to read it. This feels like freedom to me, because I have nothing to prove. I can write for the sake of writing, learning as I go.

The other night I read about “microscopic truthfulness” in Brenda Ueland’s If You Want to Write. It made me pause, and delete a few paragraphs I had written that didn’t feel completely true. But mostly it gave me a great idea to just catalog a day. She showed that hearing true things about real people’s lives is often more enjoyable than reading contrived things with an intended affect.

What I found is that the day was so much richer because I wrote about it. On my run I enjoyed thinking about how I could share this world around me with others. Throughout the day I was more present to both the world around me and my own thoughts.

So this is why I write, simply to share the world around me, and myself, with those I love. And to learn about myself and the world around me. I pray I never try to make it more than that.