Holidailies Wrap-Up
I’m putting away the tree and ornaments this evening. I’m tucking the on-sale special containers back in the garage, stuffed with the ribbons, bags, paper, books, doodads and little orts that come out once a year, and scream “Christmas.” In December, they warm my heart and are so lovely - shiny, red, green, gold, sparkly, kitschy.
In January, their festive air dulls and reads more as clutter. After three weeks, I’m ready to move on. I’ve got a little seed planting project, the dining room needs things hung on the wall, and there’s another wall to paint. I want to move the piano over there, and the TV back over there… get these boxes out to the curb, call someone to come pick up the old couch…
After 31 or 32 daily entries, I’m not exactly ready to move on from Holidailies. I have many new blogs to read (hoping that the interesting folks I’ve met keep posting), and some catching up to do. I have some entries of my own to add to the stack of things I want to revisit someday when I write a book. There are little seeds in there.
And for this third year I joined in, I am grateful to Jette and Chip, and all the gang, for those little seeds, the little holiday gifts that will germinate and bloom down the road somewhere.
Someday, you might see a woman in a hotel lobby, a library or a Starbuck’s. She might be scribbling or tapping away on her laptop. She might be the next J.K. Rowling, she might be the next Molly Ivins, or she might be me – just someone who lives to write and writes to live. Whether or not I take my ability to write and turn it into published work (again) in the future is not the most important part of Holidailies to me. While not every entry is War and Peace (with eggnog), I managed to stay “above the line” for an entire month. That’s best part – the discipline I demonstrated to myself.
I take that back. The best part is writing something that you, Gentle Reader, wanted to take a few minutes to skim, read, peruse, note and otherwise ponder. My thanks to you. My goal for January is to post four times a week. There are plans afoot to create an edited group blog too, but that is not until later in the year. (Stay tuned!)