March 6, 2025

 Yesterday, I decided that after I did my morning ritual that I would spend at least an hour writing, to get back into the habit of writing each day.

Yesterday, I wrote a post which served as my writing for the day. I have other projects in the works and I don't think I was subconsciously avoiding doing the work on those. This morning, I got back into those. I have a book of poetry entitled Layman's Guide to Screaming and my plan was to write volume two of that. I had about 6 entries for that, so I wanted to do a couple more at least. I managed to finish one poem that I had already started and looks like I may have completed another one.

Yesterday, I also wrote a report that I needed to have completed for a service commitment I have. I often comment that when I said I wanted to be a writer, paperwork wasn't what I had in mind. But, reports need to be written.

Another flimsy excuse.

 It's Tuesday, March 4, 2025. I was just at my author page on facebook and noticed that I haven't been there in 2 months. I could use the excuse that I've been busy with other things because it's true, I have been busy with other things. Recently, I became involved with my church. They have an outreach program called Blankets of Hope where a group of knitters get together once a month and knit squares for afghan blankets which when completed are donated to Margarets House downtown and the staff there try to find persons less fortunate than us to give them to. We used to be involved with a similar project (Santa Under The Bridge) but we shut that project down in January of this year. So, big coincidence that we would find this project to become involved with. It could be a coincidence, or as a friend of mine likes to say, a Godcidence. Because, as I say, coincidence is how God protects his anonymity.

I have also been involved with the midwinter roundup, an AA event that is held every February. I was co-chair of the committee planning the event and I also managed to get myself volunteering as the Al-anon speaker at the Welcome Meeting on Friday night, last Friday night to be precise. 

I know from experience that when you are the speaker at one of these things there are three stories you tell. The first is the one you tell yourself while you're sitting there waiting to speak. "I should tell them that story." Another one is the story you tell yourself after you sit back down...."Oh shit, I should have told them that one." And , the third one is the story you actually tell while you're up there.

So, I took some notes which I don't usually do. At first, I thought I'll just make a few bullet points to jog my memory. Of course, being long-winded I ended up with four pages of prose which did come in handy and which, with a bit of tweaking, will make a good piece to submit to The Forum, the Al-anon version of The Grapevine. I have had 6 or 7 pieces printed in Grapevine over the years, so who knows.