The Poetist

It has been a very, very long time since I blogged, and I have missed doing it.  Based on some inquiries from friends, it seems like other people have missed it as well.  I went from blogging more than once a week in Tokyo to blogging a few posts during my 6 weeks on the John Edwards for President campaign in Iowa, to a small handful of blogs over the course of a few months in the difficult transition from life after the campaign to living in California.  And since then, nothing.  It’s not been for a lack of time, or a lack of ideas.  I have to admit, I’ve been distracted… and not as confident.  I started blogging on a regular basis for the first time in Tokyo, and it was fairly easy because every experience, every interaction, every question could be turned into a story, and one that I knew hadn’t been told before – at least not to my audience.  And being so far from everyone that I loved and everything that was familiar I certainly had more of an impetus to share as much of my life as I could.  Even when I returned from Japan I had the ongoing Nova saga to blog about – in addition to a few missives about reverse culture shock.

Suffice to say, I’ve had things to say but wondered if they would be interesting; wondered if I didn’t need some sort of overarching theme to make my blog relevant.  I considered making this a blog about politics. Or making this a blog about my delayed transition into adulthood, as my 13 months in Tokyo now feels like a fantasy that I must have lived in a different lifetime.  I thought about consistently blogging about my attempts to be “green” while moving into a new apartment, buying regular household chemicals and consuming goods from Ikea.  And so, because I worried about the final product and not the process, I didn’t write anything.  I’m not sure why or how, but I think that’s finally changing.  My blog is for me, because I enjoy doing it.  Any pleasure that anyone else takes out of it is a side benefit.  I’d still like to blog about politics, and this new life that I have in California, and a lot of other things… but really, I have no idea what’s going to come out here.  I mean, I do, because there are ideas in my head, but instead of framing whatever content may end up here I’d much rather just post what I want to post and give it a name afterwards.