Have you ever suffered insomnia for so many nights running that you feared that you’d forgotten how to sleep?  Or had – shall we say – trouble in the loo-department and wondered if perhaps your body had forgotten how to perform certain key functions?

Well, the same applies to writing.  Here, specifically, on this blog.  I haven’t posted since July and in the intervening weeks I’ve often thought, “Just sit yourself down there, Kate, and write something, already!”  But the weeks sped by and still no “hello” here.  I’d planned to write a long, detailed post about what I’ve been learning from running a GoFundMe campaign.  I had other ideas, too – some of them quite grand.  Too grand, I now see if that means not doing what I truly want to do.

But today I see clearly that no forwards movement can occur until I crack this egg.  What egg is that?  It’s the thin barrier between me doing what I want and not doing what I want.  So here’s me:  cracking it in the 15 minutes I have available right now.

Hello, sweet Reader.  Hello, blog.  I am glad to see you both!

All is well here.  I’ve been running a GoFundMe campaign to help me release “Songs of the Poets” into the world.  I’ve been performing house concerts and teaching Irish.  I’ve been LOVING my work with the awesome people who visit me every week for their sessions in The Bardic Academy.  And I’ve been falling deeply in love with Fall, with the way she changes her mind (see the gorgeous “have it my way” leaf in the photograph), with her quick-slow pace, with her glorious gold among the green.  Woods walking, bent-over-gawking, journal-scribbling…

There you have it:  a cracked egg.  Care to join me today in doing that thing you’ve put off and made into a big hoo-ha deal?  Maybe we could do more things like this – easy and simple.  And, I can attest, really much nicer in the doing than in the waiting to do!