None of us know how stories end. Will it be another “happily ever after”? Or a classic tragedy? A drama, or a thought-provoking assessment of life, now? From the beginning, we can’t see the end.
This is true of life, of friendships, of jobs, and even of blogging. I’ve been reading blogs for more than three years now, and I’ve never wanted to start my own until, well, now. It’s scary, this thing, of putting oneself out there. Of owning our words. Of claiming opinions, even if they are only about knitting. Opinons matter, because they are important to us.
I hope this blog will be a place for me to come and write when I can’t write elsewhere. Writing is my job–I’m writing a dissertation. This means there are good days and bad days, and I have yet to figure out how to make the bad ones good. But I hope this will be a new outlet for me to explore the creativity that has drawn me to writing, and to knitting, and to this online community of knitbloggers, where I have observed, but in which I am now participating. I also hope this will give me motivation to get better at taking pictures, but that’s a different problem altogether.
It feels like a bigger step than it is. But it is time for a new beginning.
