I didn’t start with “the journey begins” as one might expect since for me this is really a continuation of a lifelong struggle (“pursuit” if I’m being generous) to pursue (the thesaurus wasn’t helping me here) all the different interests that plague capture me.

My mind is often scattered and if I was asked to enumerate all my interests there would be some that I forget about, though as soon as I remember I would be incapable of letting go, somehow deluding myself that no, I really can still do this thing that I had forgotten but totally care about. So step one was to make a list that exists outside of my head. Enter my “Pursuits” Trello board.

According to my little “Doing” checklist, I currently have 18 pursuits, if you put all the various crafting interests into one. The “X” you might see in there is to indicate that it is a pursuit I have let go of, though even now as I look at poor #justbookdatathings I feel an urge to throw myself back in.

But I’ve been there so many times before. I ultimately found little satisfaction in a book review website that no one saw. My interest was in talking to other people about the books I was reading, so I moved that particular operation over to Goodreads. Now that I think about it, I should either make a list on that board of things I’ve let go of, or archive it all together.

Anyway. This blog is a way for me to get my stormy thoughts out of my head and down on “paper.” I’m hoping documenting my journey will result in more progress on these hobbies/interests, because it might not surprise you that having all of these hobbies racks me with indecision. I freeze, trying to figure out what to spend my (extremely limited free) time on today, and ultimately don’t do anything at all. So maybe sharing the struggle will help.

But, I’m going to be generous. Let the journey move onward!