A year here
Posted on | June 17, 2006 |
A year ago, more or less, I started this blog hoping to find a reason to come to the page every day. I have. You. Thank you. For your kindness, your friendship, your encouragement, your humor, your beautiful art, your appreciation.
This blog has become a kind of lens for me, allowing me to look from a different angle back at my life. Most months I have come to the page almost every day and given something up. Some shred of my day, some moment, some thought. And the act of writing it, and sharing it, has altered it. Like sudden small diamonds pressed out of the carbon of daily life, I’ve learned to see things differently through this process.
I could not have imagined this outcome. When I started writing here, I still felt like I was an imposter as a parent. I was still in a riot of shock that I was somebody’s mother, and this was the place I came to start exploring this new role. Now a year into the thick of it, scraped knees feel second nature. But also, I’ve found art again: my brushes, camera, keypad. I’m so grateful.
PS—Tonight we sat outside at the edge of the lawn where the last of the evening sun fell in large swathes of yellow on the grass. We blew bubbles, and watched them float weightless and dreamy through the light. Bean, his hands outstretched towards each swirly blue and rainbow orb. Me, shutter happy as usual. See ?
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June 17th, 2006 @ 5:06 am
I see you there in the rainbow!
I’m so glad we found each other out here in this amazing ether medium. Like sudden small diamonds pressed out of the carbon of daily life: perfectly said and exactly how I feel about your posts.
June 17th, 2006 @ 12:18 pm
Congratulations on your year. It’s been truly a pleasure to find your blog and to read your writing over the past few months. And what a photo! - Marvellous!
June 17th, 2006 @ 1:39 pm
how lovely that bubble is and congratulations on the year anniversary.
June 17th, 2006 @ 1:41 pm
I’m so thrilled you did. Otherwise, I likely would never have had the opportunity to know you and fall in love with your little family. Thank you so much for sharing yourself and your art with us. I know I’m a better person for knowing you!
MWAH!
June 17th, 2006 @ 6:00 pm
What an amazing picture….love the colours, the reflection…simply beautiful, just like everything you’ve ever given us on this blog, these snapshots of your life. Thank you Christina. It’s been such a delight that you share your creations with me, and everyone else.
June 18th, 2006 @ 8:32 am
Perfect bubble, perfect picture! Thank you for all you post.
June 18th, 2006 @ 9:53 am
It is a gift to know you, to be inspired by your art and your words, your smiling face, your immense love for all this life holds. You kick ass as a mama, too. A happy one-year blogbirthday to you!
June 18th, 2006 @ 5:27 pm
Your blog is a treasure; a diamond in the rough.
Fantastic picture…
June 19th, 2006 @ 9:08 am
That is an amazing photo, Christina… yes, bubbles sure do signify summer is here, doesn’t it? I am also thrilled you have started your blog… it is always so uplifting and inspiring to visit here!
June 19th, 2006 @ 9:24 am
Congratulations Christina. It truly is amazing
Hope all of you are doing well.
June 19th, 2006 @ 3:55 pm
Happy blogiversary, Cristina! You know how much I appreciate your words and art. A steady impetus for writing about my kids, your work reminds me constantly how to really record what matters: it reminds me not to merely scan the moment’s surface but to fly around it, recording every impression it has made. When life is so busy, it’s hard for me to rest at the page. You remind me to rest.
June 19th, 2006 @ 9:38 pm
Awesome shot, Christina!
June 20th, 2006 @ 8:13 am
Congrats on 1 year, Christina. I’m so glad it seems your spirits are up.
June 22nd, 2006 @ 8:40 am
It dawned on me the other day that one of the reasons I’ve been feeling so cranky and off my game is because I’ve allowed other things to cut into my blogging life. Not my blogging TIME (that’s inevitably going to happen as ‘real’ life demands take up more of it sometimes)…but my blogging LIFE. I NEED what blogging gives me…it gives me so much. Sounds like you get the same sort of payoffs from it. Happy blogiversary.