After posting three times on Friday - a very unusual occurrence here - you may be surprised to read that I am struggling, and have been struggling, for some time to find posts. I'm reluctant to let days pass without a post because I know, from experience, that days extend into weeks and them I'm into my nth restart ... but what to post?
The title is the giveaway. It's free posts for me and reposts for you.
What a cheapskate! No originality!
I'm sorry. Beggars can't ....... except I am choosing, have chosen, two free posts, two reposts: both from 22nd April this year.
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The first - Limerick - summed up where we were as a family.
Swearing Mother has initiated a limerick meme - Your Life in a Limerick.
My true, but pathetic, attempt is:
A family so incredibly tired
Of the life in which they are mired
Say, "Go to the press"
"Slag off the NHS"
"Just give us the treatment desired"
UPDATE: A few hours sleep brought a much more appropriate final word. This now leaves the limerick as:
A family so incredibly tired
Of the life in which they are mired
Say, "Go to the press"
"Slag off the NHS"
"Just give us the treatment required"
We have moved on since than if not actually moved forward.
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The second - An L of a Life - showed where I was, as opposed to the family.
Yesterday in a comment to my Limerick post jmb suggested a six word memoir meme to describe my life. I've gone a stage further and used 6 words each beginning with "L". How you group, if you group, the words is entirely up to you.
Leavings
Lacking
Loves
Lost
Lonely
Low
It's sad to see that my blog is reduced to simplistic posts like this - so far from where I want to be - but I guess this, at least, keeps my blog going and keeps my visibility just above zero. Sometime ...........
These "L's" still apply although I am not nearly as low now as in April.
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Sometimes the simplest posts are the deepest. At the time all I saw was their sadness and simplicity. It took others to let me see their depth. Today I can swim happily in their surprisingly warm waters.
6 comments:
It can be truly beneficial to look back at things we wrote a while ago, whether blogs, diary jottings, letters...
Sorry, having posting troubles - think my ISP is overwhelmed!
I added to the end of that comment that I'm glad you're feeling rather better now.
I am glad things are better than they were in April, even if marginally. One small step at a time.
I don't find those posts simplistic, so much of you is there for all of us to see and sometimes it takes just a few words reveal so much. I think it takes great courage to admit these things and we respect you for that.
I gave up on worrying about posting every day long ago. In the beginning ideas for posts came easily but now when I think something might be interesting to others I post it or if I want to say something I say it.
A blog is a dynamic thing and it changes just like anything else. I don't have any problem with reading any posts from the past, as Dragonstar says.
Don't search for posts, Calum. Let them find you.
I like this post and Calum, I love the limerick, well done :)
I too am glad you are not feeling so low as you were.
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