Jump on in - the water's fine!

Yesterday morning I did something totally random and out of my realm. I drove 2 hours away to meet a woman who's blog I read on a daily basis but had never spoken to in my life. Matt humored me and my Google Reader addiction and joined me on the journey to Healdsburg to meet Jenna (and a few other bloggers) in support of her "interview" for Murphy-Goode winery. While sitting in traffic on the 101 I kept occupied by thumbing through the Sunday paper, when I came across a rather timely article titled "The vast majority of blog start-ups are eventually abandoned by their creators".

Ha. I was a statistic.

"According to a 2008 survey by Technorati, which runs a search engine for blogs, only 7.4 million out of the 133 million blogs the company tracks had been updated in the previous 120 days. That translates to 95 percent of blogs being essentially abandoned, left to lie fallow on the Web, where they become public remnants of a dream — or at least an ambition — unfulfilled. "

I am a quitter. I have tried to keep a blog before. But I quit. More then once.

I just didn't and still don't feel like I really have anything worth contributing to the 133 million blog junkyard. Because really, who out there cares what I ate for breakfast, or whether or not I rode my bike to work.

I'm not sure that airing my dirty laundry for anyone to see make a difference? Who really needs to know about my struggles with disordered eating, or my icky past of obsessive exercise?

But then a funny thing happened. While in Healdsburg I got talking with Jenna, and Maggie and they opened my eyes to the opportunities available to me right here at my fingertips. They didn't begin their blogs to cure World hunger, or win the Noble prize. They simply had thoughts, and feelings and blogs were the perfect avenue to express those.

Me and Jenna @ Murphy-Goode Tasting Room in Healdsburg

So, I decided, why not now. My life has changed in ways I never could have imagined. I have seen, felt, and experienced things which have made me who I am today and who I will become tomorrow. I am just living and learning. I don't know what I will share on this blog. But even if I am the only person who contributes or reads it, that'll be okay with me. Because it's not about the number of hits my page gets, or how many comments I receive. It's about me, my soul, my journey and my renovation in to who I will become.