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?