So it's the first working day of the
New Year 2016 and if you haven't heard it already Happy New Year. The
great news is (and as is always recited many many times if you've
celebrated a good Scottish Hogmany) that you can start over, begin
afresh, change your mind, change your attitude and if your feeling
in a radical mood, run away and start over completely anew. That may
sound drastic. However for many this may not be a bad idea, after
all. New Years resolutions are often about getting rid of toxins,
maybe it's alcohol for a few days or months, maybe it's sugar; for
some people it's toxic relationships, even with ourselves.
I've been keeping this blog since 2008.
The name comes from my affection for spiral bound notebooks and in
fact spiral bound diaries. I've got tens of them stacked up from over
the years. The reason I like them so much is that they can expand and
contract. You can rip pages out, add pages in and create your own
story or documentation as and how you like it. All without having to
start at page 1 and make no mistakes all the way to the end, getting
everything in the right order. See even keeping a notebook can be
exhausting, if you are expected to use it in a logical and systematic
order. Saying that you might be entirely comfortable with that being
a logical and systematic person.
Not me, my notebooks are filled with
half written stories, reordered stories, incredible ideas and to do
lists that should be easily compatible with a digital device. The
problem is that's just not for me. I like to see the quality of my
handwriting or the ink of a pen that has been long since lost or feel
the weight and smell of a dis-guarded notebook.
This year I am embarking on a new
journey to become and qualified Life Coach, naming myself as a Life
Doula to provide a safe holistic service for my fellow humans to seek
support from. Like everybody else caught in the human, Earth
experience I'm working out what works for me. The things worth
keeping and the things I need to change, get rid off or just not
accumulate; both spiritual and material. So even though I'm entering
a new chapter I'm keeping my old blog because some things hold true.
I like who I was, I still like spiral bound notebooks. Today I bought
not one but two spiral bound diaries to start of 2016 and well I like
when my distilled or even wobbly ideas finally make it into this
blog.
So what is your story? Old, new,
revamped or vintage. Recycled or repurposed, new chapter or retold?
Lessons learned? Love's lost? Frustrations mastered? Dreams realised?
Fantasies lived? Your story, in your own order at your own time and
pace, that's a worth while cause.....
