Decidedly Personal

Back in December 2009, when I began this blog,  I was thinking more of it as a writing opportunity,  an opportunity to share this stage of my life.  At that time, I was still pretty much in my recently-retired mode of being.  I thought I might write about little insights and bits of pastoral wisdom.  I still had mostly a pastor's sense of self.  And since I did have an interim assignment for most of the year of 2010,  it was indeed my pastoral experiences that provided the basis of most of my blog writing that year.

In the two years since the beginning, a lot has changed.  One thing is--- I have put to rest the writer in me, having no more drive in that area.

 Also, it has been well over a year since I have been functioning as a pastor, and have managed to shed a good deal of my self identity as being primarily that.  Now, I tend to think of myself more as a parent, grandparent, parishioner, friend, retiree, person of leisure.

And with that transition,  I notice also that my whole intention around the blog has shifted to being much more personal, and family oriented.  In fact, I don't think it would be too far off to say that the blog has become my new "family album".   I used to take lots of camera pictures, get them developed, and put them in albums.  That went out the window with the arrival of the digital camera.   Truthfully,  I have never gotten many of the digital pictures developed or printed, and I don't maintain a photo album at all any more.

I did get the blog printed one year, and found that was a wonderful way to preserve my favorite pictures and thoughts.

I write this to acknowledge the change, and to recognize that readers from the public arena are not likely to find much of interest.  The content has become mostly personal.  I do not consider that either good nor bad.  It is simply part of the ever changing,  fluid, evolving stuff of life.

So be it.