Day 27 - infinity

You might posit from the title that I’m no longer writing “daily” posts here. That’s not to say that I won’t write every day, but rather that the structure isn’t going to be based on repeating 24 hour periods. Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve found that some days I have two or three different ideas I want to write about, while other days, I may not have any. So, I want to give myself the creative freedom to write about ideas divorced from day-to-day journaling.

I still want to hit an average of one post per day, but now with a different intention. I don’t always want to reflect on the last few hours and try to find a deeper meaning that may not be there. Sometimes vomit is just vomit and there aren’t profound parenting lessons to learn!

I also need more time on some posts to thoroughly research, write, and edit my thoughts on the topic. So much of what I’m reading in parenting books has provided great thinking springboards. But I can’t always come up with a pithy story in the moment. It may need to marinate in my drafts for a couple of days.

Lastly, I have foregone my handwritten pages since the baby was born. I have told myself that it’s too hard to do right now. I’m too busy, too tired, and too focused on the baby. But that excuse-making stops today. I need the 30 minutes of writing morning pages. It’s not an option. I have the support to make this happen and I just need to prioritize it. As I write here on the computer at my desk, my daughter is fast asleep in a carrier against my chest. So if I can do this typing, I can also write three pages of longhand stream of consciousness. I can, I will, and I must.

So long for now.

Felix