The past few months have been filled with editing the Creative Thursday series {we're getting close to a launch date!!!} and it's come up more than once in the conversations we've been having, this idea of nothing is permanent, honoring the right to change. To which I add, the right to change your mind.
I said goodbye to this blog, and I kid you not when I thought about moving on, I had the saddest dream about the loss I would feel if all of it was suddenly deleted. I've been writing here since July 2006.
Nine years of sharing at this one home. It almost chronicles my entire body of work along with the building of this business from the very beginning. And while I am entering a new phase of Creative Thursday yet again - I've realized that this doesn't mean that I need to leave behind what came before, but rather embrace it in the new evolution.
And the other truth is I tried writing posts on the blog at my new site and it just didn't feel the same. Something about the familiarity of the Typepad interface invites the writing. So with the help of Typepad I figured out a way I can wrap this blog seamlessly into creativethursday.com without having to give it up.
I'm so excited about this decision, that it's like the desire to blog has been reignited. More like the desire to write has been reignited.
Because here's the other thing I realized, I miss writing. Remember? I'm not a journaler but as it turns out this blog has kept me writing regularly. Lately when I've gone to craft even a simple email newsletter, the ability for it to feel effortless has not been happening. My writing is feeling rusty. Just like painting, writing is a skill that I want to keep developing.
Over the past few years, many of us stopped posting to our blogs because social media seems to have taken over. Which it may have? Who takes the time to read blog posts anymore? Actually I think speaking for my own online content absorbing habits; I do still read blog posts, I'm just way more selective about which ones. In fact, in perfect timing, I came across this beautiful post just last week.
When I was still blogging regularly here, it did start to feel like I was writing to the void. It felt a little lonely as I missed the community and the conversations we used to have here.
I know it's ok for me to return because I've accepted that blogging has changed. I have no expectations and yet I do have a curiosity about what it might continue to become? Who knows, right? Maybe it will make a big resurgence as we crave more thoughtful content online vs short sound bites that disappear in seconds into a never-ending feed? The internet frontier = the great unknown, as if any of us could have predicted what this has all become? What I am most looking forward to in re-entering this space; is having it as my place to write and express thoughts whether anyone reads it or not. The other difference this time is that I won't be keeping up this blog out of any kind of obligation; but rather only post when I have something to communicate about the business and also when I feel like I have something meaningful to share.
I have more paintings, more classes and more books in me. Since much of the inspiration for my work, especially my written work, was basically born here - I'm certain discoveries for the next book will be forthcoming.
For those of you who wrote to me telling me you would miss this space, it's going to stay! And I'll sign off by saying I'll see you here when I see you xo
