The Graveyard of Blog Posts

The wonderful thing about writing a blog, at least the way I do it, is that I have no deadlines and I'm not obliged to write to keep food on the table. Thinking that some of you might be interested in our cycling trip to Holland and Belgium, I tried three times to write a post about one aspect of another of the holiday. No go. One sounded extremely whiny and nobody wants to read that. Besides, I enjoyed the trip overall and whining about bits of it would give the wrong impression. The two posts were just plain tedious and if they're tedious to me why would anyone else would want to read them? It was tempting to get something posted because I'm behind on the self-imposed number of posts this year but all the writing felt awkward and uncomfortable so I decided it was better say nothing.

I'm not sure why it's so hard to write about holidays. When I try to cover what we did and where we went it ends up sounding about as interesting as a shopping list. Maybe it's because I spend a lot of time in my head and when I'm seeing so much that is new I'm busy taking it all in rather than thinking about it. Even the funny or dramatic incidents sound trite when I try to capture them in words. So where does this leave me? I don't think I'm going to be writing about the trip in the near future and I know some of you would be interested in it. I have put together a photo album with captions and, if you like, you can go to this address and take a look. https://photos.app.goo.gl/zpcO7M4mSlrimiL83 

Apologies to those of you who have already seen this album. As I have time to recall bits and pieces of the trip something blog-worthy may come up and if it does I'll follow the lead. This tiny dilemma has reminded me to stop, take a breath and ask 'why am I doing this?' It has also helped me to realize that I want to offer something to think about in this space. It feels good to have discovered and articulated that.

Thanks for reading this. I appreciate your support.

Side note: I wrote this is a word processing program and pasted in the text rather than working directly in blogger. The text is too crowded but I'll leave it for now and experiment with other possibilities in the future.