The Beautiful Blogging session, was the cornerstone of my blogher experience. The room was full of women who shared a purpose. All of us are interested in making the blogosphere and our lives beautiful.
I do not suffer the idea that this is a novel idea. I said yesterday that I gravitate to the beautiful post, I don’t have the time or energy for the angry, the hateful, the let’s band together and dis her posts or blogs.
The first blog I click on each morning, right after I click on yours! If I’m honest, is Soulemama’s. She helps me set the tone for my days, the computer boots up while I pour cereal, find pants, and wipe up spills. And then tea in hand I sit down for her post. She leaves me a little gift each morning in the form of a beautiful picture, or a calming thought.
And then I’m off to find out that the cat’s food has been left in a mountainess pile for her to gorge herself on.
Today, Amanda Soule’s post was a thank you to her readers.
And it struck me that sometimes we overlook all the beauty in our lives everyday. We forget to thank others for being a part of that beauty, no matter how small, no matter how disconnected.
Each of you that come here, contribute to my day. Each of you that leave comments, help me to find out about you and share the beauty that is you and I thank you for that.
I thank each and every blogger that I interacted with at Blogher, whether the interaction was good, bad or indifferent, it helped me to focus on the importance of beauty and how sometimes it is harder to see than others.
There is a beauty in the sadness of my little guy as he claims my lap as his own every time I sit down since we’ve gotten home. He is growing up and he is becoming attached to me, his dad, his brother. He missed us while we were gone. He is becoming a person all on his own with all his own feelings. And he is so beautiful.
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He is. So beautiful. Look at the curls! When Erik and I took the long weekend up at Tahoe, I swear, when we picked up the kids at my mom’s, it seemed like Scotty had grown a foot and was suddenly TALKING and saying COMPREHENSIBLE things. Bittersweet.
I enjoyed this post too… I didn’t go to the Beautiful blogging session, but I agree. I decided awhile ago to make an effort to focus more on the positive (OK, in my case – more of the silly) in my blogging. There are so many rants and gripes and just cranky things. I think the occasional gripe or some wailing is fine, but…
So, great post – and precious picture… it feels comfortably warm
It feels so good to find your blog and read this post … I respect your thought that it isn’t all that novel to see blogs that focus on what’s beautiful in the world, but in my experience it’s rare enough that I’m inordinately happy when I find one. (And I’m right there with your commenter above – silly is good, too!
I loved finding the “Beautiful Bloggers” option at BlogHer this year, and meeting so many of us all at once was trés cool.
Just as an aside, I’d love to know more about how others are tagging their work – “beauty” tends to get me all tangled up with make-up.