The Mantra

I have blogged several times the last few weeks. The first time in over a year.  The question I have not resolved is why am I blogging. It is probably the case that no one buy my daughter and perhaps my wife have read any of this. Kathy may figure that the one she read was it and hasn't been back. My family is pretty loyal but I am pretty sure they are out of the habit of checking this blog.

I have wondered about inviting some extended family to read it and maybe some friends?  I haven't done that before. Maybe this blog would, if I keep blogging in it up, turn into a way to stay in touch or up to date with them.  Facebook perhaps is a more modern way to do that? I can't see me going on Facebook and living parts of my life there. I have limited interest in what I see there and have the potential to be in front of a lot of people who had not intent of seeing anything about me on purpose.

I have also thought about starting another blog. I might make it more about something. Something is a necessary word here because I have no answer for what that something would be. I don't think politics is a good subject. Religion probably isn't but then religion is about strong feelings about things and I have those.

I do think I have some subjects inside that may come out in a book.

     The goodness of people

Is often blurred with each day

     The life story reveals, whats in the way

 Today this blog has room to become a book blog.  I just finished the book, "Writing Down The Bones, Freeing the Writer Within", by Natlie Goldberg.  

It was about the writer and writing.  One thing I didn’t expect from the author was how her years in New Mexico were relevant to this subject. 

 The expected image I often find about this state is one that when I am in Santa Fe or Taos. There I find it in excess. It is a mantra. Artsy, cool, creative, beautiful, all creating an image in what ever is being discussed.

With the Bones book finished I just went in and found another book I might read.  "On Second Thought, by Robison E. Wells. (maybe he is a more important writer than Natalie Goldberg because he has a middle initial on the cover?)  It says right on the cover that it is "a novel". Maybe that is a declaration or maybe it was part of the title?  Perhaps the book really is an attempt at being a novel or maybe the whole thing is just a story about writing a novel? Not sure yet. 

A early surprise about this book was found in the "back cover comments". A character in the book, Walt, is offered a job in Alamitos, New Mexico. It says that the town is beset with colorful, offbeat characters and mystery .......................

Here again is the New Mexico Mantra at least the mantra is used to suggest something. Having read the first part of the book I didn't think that it was the same mantra of artsy and cool and more important the book didn't hold my interest..................