I must try harder

You would never know that I love to write - not if this blog is anything to go by. I write all the time in my head but it never seems to take on a written format. Maybe I should have one of those small battery operated dictaphones so that I can at least capture my thoughts as they occur.

I have started walking to work at least one day a week (and sometimes more often) and during the 30 minute walk each way, I compose children's stories, sermons, reflective thoughts and, sometimes, poems and song lyrics. When I find the time to start putting these down in writing, it never comes out the same. I find the shower is also a great place in which to be creative. Why is it that I can present a communion message without notes (speaking from the heart) when I am in the shower but become tongue tied and note reliant when standing in front of the congregation?

Anyway, I digress .... it seems I am not the only one to have writer's block. Number four child has a blog [well, 2 blogs actually] which is really readable and I am going to copy her latest challenge which is designed to help break the blockage. Sorry Hannah - hope you don't mind. I have linked to your first post and hopefully anyone interested will be able to find the rest ...

http://hannahsreductions.blogspot.com/2011/01/boring-blogger.html

So, without further ado, here is blog #1 ... What would be found in my purse?

• Hmmm - lots of discarded till receipts - always kept "just in case" - of what I have no idea. But sure as eggs, as soon as I discard one, I need it!
• My wallet of course plus a small coin purse just in case I want to leave the handbag behind and carry something smaller in my pocket.
• Three sets of keys - my house and car keys, and then keys to offices of both of my jobs.
• Cellphone
• Camera - you just never know when you might need this.
• Makeup bag with medical supplies instead of makeup. Asthma medication, hayfever pills, panadol, throat and cough lozenges, breath fresheners, and eye drops.
• A small notebook - very useful for all sorts of things.
• Pen or two (or three)
• Sometimes there might be a zucchini or other vegetable from my garden - but these of course are not the norm :-)

So very different to what I would have had in there even five years ago. There is no doubt that age determines our purse contents.

Will be back tomorrow with blog #2 - what wouild make me feel better.....