You’ve probably noticed that I started ‘talking’ again here. I just wanted to share with you how this came about. I’ve actually felt some guilt in the back of mind for a long time about not posting. Why? Especially since I warned you all that it would happen…long spaces of nothingness filled with random posts of questionable value.
I think I realized that I wasn’t feeling guilty because I’d let you down or because I’d not done something I promised anybody that I’d do. Instead, I think I just felt guilty about letting myself down because I was letting all of those inner voices in my head keep from writing and I was ashamed that even after I’d given myself ‘permission’ as it were (on my blog for Pete’s sake) to do whatever I wanted that my response was to do a big fat nothing.
You know, in addition to not blogging, I’d stopped reading too.
So, I flipped the good ol’ Google reader back on the other day and glazed over when it showed that I had 1000s of posts that I HAVE to read. I said ‘screw that’ and just hit ‘Mark all as Read’ . I declared RSS bankruptcy and moved on.
Then I read a post from one of my fav bloggers that listed a bunch of his favorite blogs/feeds. I love those kind of posts because it’s sooooo hard to find blogs that I truly dig (no pun intended). All of those tools out there that are supposed to help you find blogs that you’ll like don’t work for me.
Anyway, one of them that he mentioned (sorry, don’t even remember who it was and I’m too lazy to go look it up) had a blurb about Havi Brook’s The Fluent Self. Really, I checked into most of what he linking, but for some reason, I just kept reading more of Havi’s posts and liked it more and more (although it took a while before I stopped mumbling that I didn’t get the freakin’ duck thing – I’m still not sure I do, but I don’t care now).
She’s got an awesome, fantabulo.us kick-arse series on blogging. Havi, you got me going again….
group hug (even though I’m totally not into the hippie stuff, I sort of got it – I think…ah who cares, it worked). Thank you!
If you’re not blogging (and I have no idea why you’re here if you don’t because I think read somewhere that a ridiculous portion of people that read blogs are bloggers themselves), please read her posts and start. We don’t need another site to tell us how to make millions on the web in your pajamas, but I can guarantee that there are people that need to hear you.
If you do blog, you owe it to yourself to go read them. (Havi probably wouldn’t like my implication that you should feel obligated or like you have to go read them, but I’m less touchy-feely…so go do it already 
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