Upon Returning to Her Home....
It's been a very long six months....
I thought a lot about whether or not it was a good idea to start blogging here again.
and since I'm not being sued or that there's some kind of custody fight, or anything like that, I figured it was ok.
I've always done my most creative writing here--perhaps even my best. Even though the other blog has been the one that's gotten me recognition and work....
The Experience of Life is, by far, more interesting to me than the Experience of Work. I guess I can blame my passionate Italian Catholic upbringing, coupled with a heavy dose of confessional pop culture, and a dash of neglectful parenting, for that one. Had I been raised with those good Protestant (and sometimes even New Age-y)values that speak volumes about how your work must be your main passion in life, and had learned to cultivate a careful "public gaze" (so to say), and if I had a really *nice* rather non-controversially complicated life that went along the way it was supposed to, then maybe I'd be satisfied with *just* one online personna...
But I'm a complicated little critter, who relishes the fullness of an adult life that has been lived without the birthing of children or long-term significant others (for any length of time over 7 years that is--something about that magical 7th year...or is it that itchy 7th year???)
I'll have more to say on that whole Significant Other thing...suffice to say that it's taken me a very long time and many kinds of relationships to figure out what a "soul mate" is and what forms love takes in the lives of adults....
It is not an easy thing, this life thing. It is, however, very unique--if we choose to live it fully....even if there are compromises and apologies. Sometimes those are necessary...
I thought a lot about whether or not it was a good idea to start blogging here again.
and since I'm not being sued or that there's some kind of custody fight, or anything like that, I figured it was ok.
I've always done my most creative writing here--perhaps even my best. Even though the other blog has been the one that's gotten me recognition and work....
The Experience of Life is, by far, more interesting to me than the Experience of Work. I guess I can blame my passionate Italian Catholic upbringing, coupled with a heavy dose of confessional pop culture, and a dash of neglectful parenting, for that one. Had I been raised with those good Protestant (and sometimes even New Age-y)values that speak volumes about how your work must be your main passion in life, and had learned to cultivate a careful "public gaze" (so to say), and if I had a really *nice* rather non-controversially complicated life that went along the way it was supposed to, then maybe I'd be satisfied with *just* one online personna...
But I'm a complicated little critter, who relishes the fullness of an adult life that has been lived without the birthing of children or long-term significant others (for any length of time over 7 years that is--something about that magical 7th year...or is it that itchy 7th year???)
I'll have more to say on that whole Significant Other thing...suffice to say that it's taken me a very long time and many kinds of relationships to figure out what a "soul mate" is and what forms love takes in the lives of adults....
It is not an easy thing, this life thing. It is, however, very unique--if we choose to live it fully....even if there are compromises and apologies. Sometimes those are necessary...
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