Taking The Time To Write and To Notice...

I haven't blogged in a very long time, and I've got a myriad of excuses...the most honest one being that I just don't give myself the kind of attention to make a special time to sit down to write.
...that is pretty basic and also major. In order to do the things we enjoy, feel good, passionate and energetic about, we have to give ourselves permission to take the time, to attend to whatever it is, to pay attention to the actual act of doing.

I collect stories and research from mega sources in articles that I add to piles on one of my three 'desks.' When I go back to them, I either like them all over again, can't find part of the article or the date it was printed, or it's out of date. There's lots of drama in that.

I have now decided that I have missed blogging enough that I am going to systemize the whole operation to make it easier, more fun, and more frequent!

I've discovered a new expression, "attention-hogging." I found it in a review of a dance presentation at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival at The Berkshires in Massachusetts, a wondrous place , where every summer marvelous theater, music, dance is performed. The choreographer/dancer, Dorraine Dorrance was able to show in a number about romance her admirable aversion to 'attention-hogging.' While I didn't see the dance,  I immediately knew what she meant, as that behavior shows up everywhere...in  classrooms, in offices, around dinner tables, in relationships, and on and on. People interrupt, they draw attention to themselves somehow, they make faces using non-verbal ways to distract, they take up the energy in a space. I applaud her showing the physicality of it.

I've been able to see the dimension of attention for ages now, and this is another facet for me to notice!