Today becomes the Day

Excuses, fears, hesitations, confusion, undecided-ness, technological difficulties, ambivalence, ignorance, and resistance, and even laziness- but mostly excuses and fear- have kept this blog in my head for almost two years. Two years because that’s when I graduated from seminary with an MDiv and all the deadlines stopped. I won the Excellence in Writing award at my seminary graduation and then promptly stopped writing anything- except thank you notes and bi-monthly e-mails to the people who pray for me. Alas, the reality is I do want to write. I want to be a writer. That’s scary to say, well, actually to write.

So this is it. Today, Tuesday, I start a blog.  It’s the beginning of a new year but that’s not really why, it’s almost the end of January after all. Just today because last night I talked to my brother and this afternoon’s lunch cancelled. I thank my brother for the encouragement last night that it was time to stop talking and start typing. Also for his help in the soup that was the technological side of setting this up! Thanks to my husband too who is wonderful at slowing me down to help me think things through, but who also today said, “GO!”… and then “just don’t use a debit card to set up a monthly host site payment” . He knows far too well about the technological ambivalence/ignorance disease I have.

I’m calling it “A Prescription for Inscription”. Prescription because like a medical prescription, I feel I want this is to be some sort of a “therapeutic regimen, an assistive or corrective device, or other treatment”.  Inscription because that word means “a mark or line” and also means “the part of prescription that contains the names and amounts”. Both of those also speak to the point of this blog, which by no means is actually anything I can articulate today, which is to mark life with words and to explore the names and amounts, the details and the make-up, of the ingredients of what part of life gets marked here.

I have no idea the rules. Was I even supposed to explain the title? I want to set some rules for myself and to make promises to readers. Today I can only think of one: I promise to proofread.

 

 

 

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