Before we begin: a brief history

It's time to start blogging again.

My first ever post on my first ever blog was written a day shy of 2 years and 5 months ago.  I very quickly discovered that I loved to write and that, actually, I was quite good at it sometimes; and so began a new relationship with the rest of the world (or rather my little listening corner of the internet).

In some respect I long for those early heydays.  I was a different person then: a gobbier, bolder, more wrong and more right person. Not my worst persona by any means but I know it didn't quite work - like an alchy ruins a fine glass of wine by having the whole bottle... for breakfast.

So - in the classic melodrama of self-discovery - I quit for a time, and when I came back it wasn't the same.  I got a new blog with a "theme" and, don't get me wrong I loved it, but there's a lot you can't say when you're limited to analogies.  It was probably a good thing too, not saying a lot, there is definitely a place in life for internal processing.  That blogging era didn't even end intentionally, it just got over-taken by my real life - the one where I graduated, got a "proper" job (with a blackberry and everything) and spent every working hour trying to make the impossible possible until I burnt out. Then I didn't really process at all. 

Dampened oscillation around a point (like a pendulum swing that gradually loses height, then settles in the middle) tends to be how I find my way, both on and off line. I'm not claiming to be there yet, not sure anyone ever is but I rather think it might be time to go back the other way and start talking about me again... why not, eh?  I'm pretty damn interesting actually.

So, to whet your appetite, I reckon that some of the things I'll be chatting about are:

Living in community in "da ghetto", starting a charity shop, being a home-maker, being a Woman, faith and lack thereof, new monasticism (maybe), stuff I write, revival, maths, music, things I've learned, stuff what makes me laugh, recipes, stories, prophecy... and anything else I decide to.

Well I better get going then hadn't I.  Let's see if Kat(i)e's still got it...