Laryngitis

So here's a cool feature of this new blog home: I'm emailing this post from my phone while sitting in my bed. Yes, I'm in bed at 9:30, but that is soooooo not the point!

Here's a half-baked post that has been ruminating for a couple of days: people have asked why I changed blog spaces. First of all, you can "follow" my blog more easily here--you can even get email updates! Not that I say much of cosmic importance, but if I ever do, you can be among the first to know! Also, I can follow all of my favorite blogs here--and can keep links to them for any of you to read at any time. All these nifty features are on the columns to the right.

As convenient and tech savvy as this space is, though, that doesn't touch the deeper reason that I needed a change of scenery. As I've prepared blogs lately, I've felt stuck. Everything had been clunky, wonky, lopsided. I've felt overwhelmed by my life lately, and when I try to write, I choke. I've lost my voice, like blog laryngitis. It's probably at least partly due to the years-long emotional/spiritual/intellectual growth spurt I've been having. I'm just hoping that I can find whatever voice is authentic for me and can synthesize all the things um processing. I hope I can integrate the growth--the theology, the righteous anger, the deeper commitment to community (which I didn't think was possible), and my desire to always speak and live honestly--and that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. I still feel very much like me; I laugh a lot, I overcommit, I get wrapped up in people and projects, and I constantly feel abundant gratitude for the way my life is unfolding. So the anger that I see when I read my blogs from the past several months needs to find outlets elsewhere such that my blog space once again becomes an accurate representation of the balance in my life as well as a place of growth, productivity, and wholeness. So that is why we are here, and I sincerely hope you all join the conversation as much as possible!