Imbolc                                                                  Valentine Moon

Bit of a setback with P90X.  I pulled a muscle in my right forearm.  Have to go slower, avoid things that stress it.  But I’ve had injuries before and will again.  Time and ice.

Though I can’t get back into to the 2005 archives right now I think it was the 5th of February or so when I began this blog.  That would make this the early days of ancientrails’ 10th year.  Though you couldn’t know this from your vantage point, I have shelves of notebooks that I kept before these blogs.

Ancientrails does represent a continuation of that work, if not a direct one.  At one point I had a spiritual journal, a journal much like this blog and an art history journal. Ancientrails contains traces of all three with a twist in midair to account for the public nature of the blog.

Writing seems to be a necessary part of my life, not really an outlet, but a moment of creating something new.  I like Yeats on this:  creativity is the social act of a solitary person.  That’s the way ancientrails feels to me.  The Great Wheel blog is a different matter.  It wants to be the voice of a mythologist and an activist.  I’ll let it be what it wants.

Here we’ll have the usual mish-mash of things, stuff I’m interested in, stuff that frustrates me, stuff I’m learning, stuff I hope for, the lives of folks I know.  Now in its tenth year. How about that?