In Need of Inspiration

Well, I made a commitment to post weekly to this blog, and now I am not certain that I am going to be able to stick with it.  I am unsure about exactly where I want to take the blog.  I am also lacking inspiration to write -- even though I am grateful for many things in my life, for whatever reason, I just don't feel like writing about it.  And, of course, I know that I don't have very many readers at this point, so the blog is feeling a bit like a fruitless exercise.

But I have decided to accept where I am with the process, and maybe I can even find something to appreciate about it! 

Because I am lacking my own inspiration, I have decided to share part of one of my favorite poems.  It is entitled Saint Francis and the Sow, by Galway Kinnell:

The bud

stands for all things,

even for those things that don’t flower,

for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;   

though sometimes it is necessary

to reteach a thing its loveliness,

to put a hand on its brow

of the flower

and retell it in words and in touch

it is lovely

until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing . . . .

Comments

[Elisse]

Hi! Good for your for acknowledging your need to become re-inspired with your blogging!

If I can offer my two-cents, I would suggest that you consider who this blog is for and why you're writing. I think there is a fine line between writing for others and writing for yourself. Which is more important to you? If you are writing for yourself, then it doesn't matter who reads or doesn't read this blog. If you are writing for others, then what are other outlets that your work can get noticed?

Hope this helps!

xoxo,
Elisse