I wish I could begin this penultimate post with something more original than commenting on how quickly the twenty-three days have sped. However, that is my overwhelming feeling this morning.
It is traditional on the next to last post for me to reread all of the earlier posts and comment on my impressions of yet another year, so here goes.
Despite my concern that I’ve fully mined the Christmas season, I wrote a post every day. Of the 22 posts, two were essentially a picture with minimal comment, but every other post was a multi-paragraph idea. I never hit a truly dry day with nothing to talk about In fact, I have two or three ideas that never made it in.
I wrote earlier than usual most days. In the last two years, I have been completing the post before falling asleep. This year, probably because I’ve been home for most of the time, it’s been easier to grab a little time to write every day.
Rereading the posts, I am most embarrassed with my poor proofreading. I see mistakes in every post which I will correct later, but I apologize for anyway. I wish I could promise better moving forward, but at my age one recognizes that major changes are unlikely.
I really enjoyed doing the dueling blogposts in Fridays. I am grateful to Andrea for suggesting it, and I hope we can do that and other blogging exercises in the future. I particularly liked having a blank canvas topic and seeing how far I could go from the predictable approach. It reminded me of when I used to teach essay writing and I told kids that a teacher would get mainly predictable essays and one way to get a better grade was to go off the board and give the teacher something unpredictable.
Of course the content is highly personal. There are only two or three “issue posts.” This is a reflection of the change in my life which I discussed in my solstice post a couple of days ago. In some ways I see this as the lynchpin post of the entire season.
Fewer comments, and probably fewer readers this year. I suspect soon that this blog will be a journal, more private than a locked book stuck under the mattress. I enjoyed almost every minute of doing this, and I am looking forward already to doing it another year.
Ok, tomorrow is my “Christmas wish” post. As usual I haven’t yet thought of one, so I’ll be off to the Target of my brain for some last minute shopping.
As always, I welcome your comments.
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I read them in blocks this year and made some comments on FB simply because I am lazy and didn’t want to sign in😄
Do you have a “Red Card” for the “Target of my brain?” That gives you a 5% discount.
I really enjoyed our Blog-off this year! It was great fun writing with you. We will think of some new projects for 2019. 🙂