:: The Memory Burns ::

:: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 ::

New Beginnings...

For some reason lately I have been feeling the urge to blog again. I started this blog in 2002. 2002! The Memory Burns has been around for a good long while, largely dormant until I stumbled upon it by accident a few weeks ago. I couldn't believe that it still existed. The last post had been in 2005! Why hadn't anyone deleted it from the server? What purpose could it possible have? It's like the car key that you lost in the sofa cushion and didn't find again until spring cleaning time. Lost, forgotten, but still valuable in its own way. You're glad to have it back when you find it, but you managed without it all the while...

The title for this blog came from a moment in my days of prolific creative writing when I was driving through Maudslay State Park in Newburyport, Mass. It's a beautiful place if you ever get a chance to visit. A friend and I were killing time, and we drove through this huge pine forest, all dark and moody with brilliant shafts of light filtering through the trees. Dust sparkled in the air amongst those trees, until everything changed as we came to a dead end, to a little grouping of small houses. At that very moment a voice in my head whispered, "It's about conviction and passion.". I had no idea what it meant at the time, and it was followed a few days later by a dream I had in which I was sitting in a small room, like a basement, which was lit by a single bare bulb hanging from a wire in the ceiling. I felt like I was being held hostage there, tied to the chair like something out of a bad spy thriller. And again I heard that voice, only this time it said, "The memory burns!". Somehow I knew that the two events were related, and the words have stayed with me, off and on, ever since. The memory burns! It's about conviction and passion! How cool would that be? How cool if we all lived our lives as if it were all about conviction and passion, and we were so immediately in the moment that it felt like that memory would be seared into our brains forever?

When I rediscovered The Memory Burns it was like stumbling into an old friend, only this time I didn't run and hide so I wouldn't have to manufacture some interesting facts to dazzle them with about my life. This time I decided to embrace it whole-heartedly. I decided it was time for me to have another go at daily, or somewhat daily creative writing. Even if it is only drabble about my life and my mini-posse of friends. We really are a stunningly interesting group once you get to know us.

I have no idea who's going to read this, but I want to write it so I am going to plow ahead with all due speed. Why, you ask? Because I love to write. I love the act of putting words on paper or a computer screen. I like playing with words. I love to create and I love to entertain whenever the mood strikes.

In other words, it's all about me, baby.

You may as well get used to it.

One last quick word. Eight years after creating this blog my older eyes realize how hard it is to read parts of it. So I am considering changing to larger print and a brighter background. Some day when I am bored I'll look into it. Right now, though, I'm just glad to be back in the blogging arena. I hope that you are, too.

:: Greta 4/13/2010 10:13:00 PM [+] 0 comments

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