It’s been forever since I just wrote a blog.
Just about something of interest. Something that makes me mad. Got me inspired. Something that just happened.
Not a series (though I still have hopes to do some of that too). Not “adding value”, other than in a sense of self expression (that someone else might connect with, but that’s not a requirement/intent). Just trying to make sense of the world.
That needs to change.
This has sort of come about as my work has centred more and more around doing what I consider valuable to work in, with and for communities.
A sense that I have to have something important to say. To share completed ideas. To somehow contribute to this (slippery) sense of “thought leadership”.
And a little bit of fear that what I might say might be misconstrued, or somehow impact my ability to do play the role I wish to play in my professional sphere.
Consider this a first attempt to break the pattern of “stop energy”.
To just reconnect with the idea of blogging. The thing that got me excited all those years ago (I started blogging around 2002, my current blog has entries back to 2003).
To have a voice in the wilderness.
To share.
To challenge.
To be challenged.
To learn.
To live true to the tagline that I started with, that inspired the name of this blog: “Thoughts that made it to the page.”