Birth of a blog

There is a trick to starting a painting, it's called "toning the canvass". A blank canvass is sometimes intimidating and the painter may never start in the fear of ruining the precious, perfect, white canvass. The best thing to do is to grab a large brush, dip it in a dark color, and recklessly paint the entire canvass.

I don't really know what I'm doing starting a blog. I lead a pretty sedate life, work a full time secretarial job, and write three pages of longhand nonsense in a journalish notebook everyday. I do have interests and opinions that need expression, so I'm starting this to put them out into the world. I have no particular grand design, just a love of sharing with friends and a need to be myself.

I'm thinking of starting out with a picture and poem every week. I don't think that is too ambitious. I draw all the time so the pictures will mostly be little doodles , sometimes on lined notebook paper. I also do finished artwork and this will give me a reason to keep it up. I'll post one every now and then.

I also write poetry but I don't like to admit it to people most of the time since saying "I write Poetry," is a great way to make people uncomfortable and end conversations. So since this is my blog and if you read it, you have brought it upon yourself to read what I write, I think you can handle a little poem now and then. I will write a disclaimer when my poetry is bad, I know some of it is bad. I particularly dislike sappy bad poetry, and I try not to write it, but sometimes I too am a sapp. I only write poems in short bursts every few months, but I have quite a store built up now so one a week should last me for a long time. I'll also post famous and not so famous poems from my favorite poets.