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2017

Many many moons since my last post.

I do think about it every once in a while..... posting, that is.

I only keep this blog for myself.  And while it says that it gets visits from places like Russia, Germany, China, France, the Middle East, and the US... I think it's probly mostly people that stumble across it looking for what a sweet potato is.

This blog keeps me honest.  With myself.  I'm pretty much an open book to the rest of the world, there are only a few things that I keep absolutely cocooned up tightly... maybe cocooned up tightly isn't the right phrase?  Maybe more like tucked away in the drawer of an old dresser that belonged to an ancestor and is kept in a corner of the attic?  Hmm.  Now I'm thinking how tranquil and secluded that would be... quiet, still.  I'd need an overstuffed chair with a blankie and a lamp... and I'd fall asleep next to the dresser, holding those things I keep to myself.  But, I digress.  I totally want that attic now.  I'll visit this thought later.

Anyway.

One of my goals this year, NOT resolutions, is to make it a priority every day to do a "five minute journaling".  I recently went through my bedroom and on various shelves and in boxes I found several journal like notebooks that I've started over the years.... and filled an entire box.  And ironically, there are more upstairs in the scrapbook stuff.

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