Hi there blog, it's good to see you...

Hello all of  you in blogland. I looked out my kitchen window this morning and saw one of my favorite things, my garden Buddha.  Here is a photo I took later in the day when I had time and was outside. When I saw it two hours earlier, it was lit by the sun and had a pointy snow hat. I love this version nonetheless. (Picture my big smile.)  I LOVE this Buddha!  It tells me to breathe when I have forgotten and always brightens my day whenever I see it.  It helps to remind me of who I am.  I am a Buddhist. I am on the Buddhist path. I meditate in front of it in the warmer weather, and contemplate my life.  It is a reminder of all things good in the world.   I mean, really, who could not feel good and serene looking at this out the window on any type of day?

Today I attended a webinar on using social media to build your business.  Of course, blogging was on the agenda!  As a result of what I learned, I won't try going back to blogging every day for all my blogs.  I have a few of them and each has a different purpose. That is too much pressure!  If I can write one post every day, Monday through Friday, I can post every week in each one without the pressure.  I will even be able to get ahead and schedule posts in advance!  So....that is what I am going for.

I will, however, even if not writing a blog post, continue to write every day, and knit, too, of course. Writing and knitting are two of the things I enjoy the most.

For some more news from my heart, here is what I wrote last night.  (I copied it over from another program, and I don't know how to get rid of the white background.)

"I have not blogged for a very long time. The reason I stopped blogging is because I was being stalked on the internet. It was very stupid and it made me very angry. I didn't stop because I was hiding anything, I wasn't, but because I did not want innocent people to be hurt. My words, while not even applying to this person or a particular situation, were twisted and used to hurt and harass others. VERY uncool!

This has cost me so much that I don't really know how to express it. One thing it cost me was my ability to manage my time, which has cost me more than lost time. (If my stalker reads this, I am sure she will be happy. Well, BFD to you, I am SO much more. Neener neener!)

I had blogged every day for nearly two years, and, for much of the time, I did it across five different blogs. It was part of my daily plan and I enjoyed it. I'm a writer at heart. I now feel a strong need to get back some of those daily habits that I used to have - the habits that I dropped because of someone else. Well, I just no longer give a damn! I will be silenced no longer!  I will regain the life that I had before this person came into it and took away my voice. Correction, before I allowed this person to take away my voice, even though I let it go for a good reason. Please be patient with me as I try to regain what I have lost.

So, what is going on with me right now in my life? I am decluttering my house. I found some daily questions that I asked myself every morning before my workday. The first question is, 'What am I grateful for?'  I believe strongly in the positive power of gratitude.  The first thing that comes to my mind is something that is just fun to use, the voice recorder function on my smartphone. Because of this function, I am able to write my blog post while I declutter a drawer in my nightstand. This is pretty cool! But, alas, it isn't really very deep.

Much deeper then my voice recorder program is the fact that I am really quite happy with my life. I have a wonderful husband, doggies that I love very much, a reasonable level of health and adequate finances to pay for my needs and some of my wants. I am also grateful, very grateful, for my introspective nature and my chosen faith, which informs absolutely everything I do, or at least that is a great big goal of mine. As a human being, I am not perfect. If I were, I would be even better than Buddha himself. I don't believe that will happen anytime soon. LOL

There are two more daily questions, which I will blog about in a future entry.

There are two things I used to write about in my journal every night, five things I was grateful for that day and five things I could acknowledge myself for that day. That was a powerful practice. I will be writing in my journal again tonight."

Thank you for your kindness and support.

Now, what are YOU grateful for?  Post a comment!