A few years back I began a blog, The Morning Thrush, devoted to birds and birding. I maintained it for several months but then, for no single, over-riding reason, quit posting to it. (I was just startled to realize that my initial post to that blog was exactly four years ago today, on September 29, 2010.) I made numerous vows to myself to re-start it, composed several posts in my head, and even sketched out a few drafts of posts, but never overcame the hurdles of inertia enough to complete anything. I think that my reluctance to follow through with any posts was due to subconscious dissatisfaction with the direction I was taking with it. In spite of a vow that I made I made to myself at the outset to not make it simply a log of birds that I'd seen recently, that was largely what it had become.
Also, I found myself feeling somewhat limited by the theme. I wanted to be able to stretch out a bit more as a writer, and delve into other topics that are central to my life and about which I care deeply--music, hiking, non-bird aspects of the natural world, rural and small town life in New England, books...and birds too, of course! So, rather than attempting to turn the Thrush into a Phoenix, I'm starting anew. Onward!
