have subscribed to the Austin Kleon newsletter for years and I never fail to learn something from each offering. This week there was a link to an article about Dagny Carlsson who started blogging at 99 years old and kept at it until she died at 109. It made me think about the fact that I have always wanted to start a blog where I could write about the articles I read. And other things too, but I am always reading interesting articles and starting sentences with, “So, I read this article…” The fact Carlsson started her blog at 99 years old after she had taken a computer course was inspiring to me. I will be 50 this year and continuously think that it is too late to start things. Too late to be a poet. Too late to be a writer. Too late to start a blog. Why do we tell ourselves these things? It may be too late to be an olympic figure skater, but I don’t think there is an age limit on words.
I tend to talk a lot. I tend to think a lot. I go down rabbit holes about all kinds of things, which makes me think about those things and then I want to talk about those things. I think this makes me a little exhausting to the people around me. Maybe a place to explore those things will be good for me.
My vision for this blog is to write about things I love – books, music, poetry, and the never-ending articles I read.