It’s been almost one year since I’ve written a blog-post but there has been an inner-draft running in my thoughts for awhile. Probably because I wanted to do something special to celebrate Mom’s 100th birthday and post it on her blog. My first plan was to spend the day in Kansas at Unity Village but that dream eventually moved away from a possible reality. Still, it was fun to plan the trip while it lasted. Instead I spent Mom’s birthday in a silent retreat at Santa Sabina which is located in beautiful grounds inside Dominican University in San Rafael. My goal for the day was to reflect in silence and write 100 memories that I have for Mom, in no particular order. Just streaming thoughts as I took myself back in hindsight through over seventy years. When the list was complete my plan was to finally put another post on mom’s blog. It almost worked but I found myself lost in the process and it never made it to her blog.
As I began to re-visit each memory on the the list I was carried away by more vivid and forgotten thoughts — each single memory became its own story and needed more time and space devoted to it. Now memory lane is looking more like something of a memoir and doesn’t seem to be blog material at all. I’ve never had an intention of writing a memoir and probably won’t but I realize I can’t leave it alone. There is going to be the new way I reflect and spend time with Mom. In my Mother’s own words “Time will tell.”
What ever the case may be — the blog will be diferent. Either it will end or become something new.
On to new directions…
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