Everything changes. Some changes are momentous in the suddenness. The loss of a loved one, a health scare, a move. Some changes are slow and plodding.
This blog continues to change and evolve. I started out as mostly an observer. But I've gained courage. I've delved into the emotional life of my parenting. I've gone through times where I've probably said more than I should. I was eager to spill out all my stored up feelings of the day.
I'm in a different kind of phase now. There are things I deliberately don't hash through in this forum. Sometimes because it involves a friend's life, not mine. Simply my reaction to her life events doesn't seem like a fair claim. Sometimes it's an idea still too tender to be set out and left on her own. And sometimes, I think I stumble into a wise decision to be silent.
The past week has been full, emotionally. Wide fluctuations from joy to sympathy, giddiness, sorrow, with stops in places in between. And mostly I've been only a sideline observer of other people's journeys.
All this to say, the past week was full. But I'm not really going to go into most of it.
On to the pictures.
What a good observation. I'm glad to hear that the tough parts weren't your tough parts, though sorry for your friends.
ReplyDeleteI admit that sometimes I sit down to write and wonder who I will write for that day; my older children reading about the past, my in-laws reading about that day, or for me, to process the right now. I typically err on the side of the first two. I do have a private blog closed to readers for the times that I just want to get my thoughts out, and writing (typing) seems to be the best way to process it. I imagine these are the times that it would be helpful to have non-virtual diaries.