Focusing in! and Out...

I realize that, for the past 6 months, this blog has been mostly focused on all the changes going on in my personal life. While a useful tool for keeping everyone up to date, that wasn't my original reason for starting BTTLG. Sometimes, one gets so consumed with their current circumstances, one loses track and just goes where the winds of change seem to be blowing them. Now that I have dropped anchor, and while I'm in a sort of getting-things-together limbo, I'd like to refocus my thoughts here and get back to what BTTLG is all about...

And what is that? What are the reasons I started writing in this way? Hmmm...

1 - Because I love discovering new things and sharing those dicoveries with others.
2 - Because there are wonderful people doing things out in the world who should be recognized for their efforts in the smallest of ways we can recognize them.
3 - It will be an account I can keep and pass down through the family.
4 - Because I love making "favorites" lists.
5 - I love having a place for people to find me and participate in a conversation even if they are miles away.

I realize that the content bounds from subject to subject, but so does my life, just as a child bounds from one game to the next. I have never been one to stay in one context for very long, and I tend to, as Henry David Thoreau puts so well, "live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign [myself] to the influences of each." It is those "influences" I like writing about. There are so many seasons, fragrances, drinks, and fruits to experience! This blog, ultimately, is an exercize in "play." I have a feeling, as I settle into my new circumstances, I will be a lot more playful than I have been in years!

So, in the coming days, I am going to reformulate a format that encompasses all of the above, giving myself the liberties of expansiveness and miscellany. I hope I continue to engage those of you who read, knowing that I can't please all of you all the time. If you are bored by knitting, for instance, an abiding hobby of mine, skip that entry and look to others. I'll try to organize by labels so you can find what you want to find. Also, in the next post, I'll give a synopsis of some likely recurring subjects. A "mind-map", if you will. And, if I die having never written well-structured and focused content, having never entertained as I strive to entertain, having no readers but myself and my "captured audience" - (friends and family), at least my decendants will have the babblings of an eccentric ancestor to puzzle over... which makes the whole passtime worth it in the end.