I've never done this before. Since I've been enjoying reading some friends blogs, I thought perhaps I'd set up my own. I used to journal with some regularity but haven't even touched my journals for at least months. It seems this can be a similar format although potentially much more public than my childhood diary with the not-so-difficult-to-open lock.

So much of life is spent not really paying attention to much of anything. Our minds are off wandering - judging, planning, remembering, anticipating - with not much time spent now. My dad has been doing all of this reading lately and has commented that life is made out of the extremes of pain and pleasure with most of our life spent in neutral. Do we remember the neutral times? Not so much.

Perhaps writing even during the neutral times can make them less neutral. We can't write without paying attention, without being present at least a little. Stop to smell the flowers.