Pressfield's writing has had a while to sink in now. I've returned the book to the friend who lent it and taken some great leaps of courage since closing the cover. I have to get my own copy of the book and read it again. Yes, it was that inspiring. More than inspiring, his writing spoke to my spirit truths it's begged to hear. The ideas he presented made me feel safe. Suddenly I felt like the writer I've always longed and desired to be. As though it were finally time to let the poet I've hidden come alive. When that poet has matured beyond this year or next, I think I'd like to have a conversation with Steven Pressfield. But for now, reading his perspective has become something of a journey into prosaic expression into the perceptions and conceptions I've long held of myself. Perhaps parts of that essay will make their way onto my blog in due time. Maybe not. I have not yet decided.
So as I leave "the effects" alone in blogosphere to concentrate my efforts on my essay, I depart them on Pressfield's suggestion:
The Artist and The Territory
"Instead let's ask ourselves like that new mother: What do I feel growing inside me? Let me bring that forth, if I can, for its own sake, and not for what it can do for me or how it can advance my standing." pg. 154
Back in college, in 2004 when blogging was hardly even a thing yet, I was here. Blogging before blogging meant anything to anyone. You can look in the archives for my past writings, but it was much more like a journal in the past. When we started fundraising, I messed around with the idea of launching something new for this new phase of our journey but actually hated that idea. I am a sum of all of my life and so much of it is here already. So I'm keeping it here. At least for now.
My main focus these days is blogging about our newest journey into the bizarre and wonderful world of gestational surrogacy. Posts dated 2013 and forward will trend heavily toward that journey. I don't promise everything I write will be about though. There might be other things that sneak in occasionally.
Please come along our journey with us. As the saying goes, "The more, the merrier!"
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