So, here I am. Clearly this blog is far from 'ready'. I have no exciting pictures, no exquisitely designed banner, I haven't even finished my profile yet! But I could spend months, or even years trying to get all that perfect and I'm not going to. I'm going to write, and publish, my first post instead. Fear not, all the rest will come later but this has to be first things first. Publish a post! You see this is a scary thing for me. Not the fact of writing, so much as the sharing of it. Actually the fact of writing is pretty scary too, but I'm getting better at that part if it. I have spent a long time trying to handle the fear that creativity arouses - I have wanted to create but been paralysed by the fear - of failure, of success, of all sorts of things, likely and unlikely. And, of late, I have been reaching the conclusion that many people find creativity both frightening and desirable and many people spend years with the fear over-coming the desire and preventing them exploring their creativity beyond very narrow limits, at all. I don't know if I have any solutions for that, or if my own experiences are interesting or inspiring or whatever else. But I do know that I am fed up with being afraid, so I am going to blog from my Pookery - my study/studio where I write, paint, sew and generally create things - about what I am doing, thinking and feeling in it and whatever comes of it will come!
For now - brightest blessings this Yuletide, and I'll see you soon.
