{"id":370,"date":"2012-07-16T21:56:33","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T21:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/2012-07-16-approximately-365\/"},"modified":"2012-07-16T21:56:33","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T21:56:33","slug":"2012-07-16-approximately-365","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/2012\/07\/16\/2012-07-16-approximately-365\/","title":{"rendered":"Approximately 365"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot believe that I started this blogging project a year ago. Impossible!! One day I up and decided to write daily for an entire year. Well, here&#8217;s a brief overview of the experience.<br \/>\nWhat I learned:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I like writing and expressing myself. This was a great way to do that.<\/li>\n<li>I can write daily (most of the time) if I choose to. It might not be elegant, but it can be done.<\/li>\n<li>I have a lot to say about a few specific topics: how cute my baby is; how smart my baby is; trying to balance work life with home and family life; decluttering and all associated with purging one&#8217;s possessions and trying to create a streamlined life<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t have as much to say about peace as I&#8217;d like, at least explicitly. I care about it, think about it, try and embrace it and practice it, but it&#8217;s the day to day and the practical\/material that absorbs me right now.<\/li>\n<li>Though I&#8217;m very comfortable sharing some things, I&#8217;m super private about others, which definitely shapes what appears in the blog. I&#8217;m particularly sensitive about how what I write might breach others&#8217; privacy, including that of my daughter. It&#8217;s one reason I still haven&#8217;t posted a picture of her, adorable though she is.<\/li>\n<li>I love communicating, hearing from others and presenting ideas that resonate somehow with someone somewhere.<\/li>\n<li>Knowing I&#8217;ll be writing frames my daily experiences in a way I enjoy, though sometimes it can be too absorbing trying to sift through the various threads of a day to produce something coherent.<\/li>\n<li>Writing daily may improve my writing somewhat, but I suspect that writing a tiny bit less but with the time to edit and reflect would produce much better results. I often have second, third and additional mental edits to things I&#8217;ve written but simply didn&#8217;t find the time to do.<\/li>\n<li>There are lots of great bloggers out there, and I love getting absorbed in others&#8217; worlds.<\/li>\n<li>I can see making writing an ongoing part of my life. I don&#8217;t know exactly how or when, and I imagine when baby is just a tiny bit older and sleeping better, we&#8217;re just that much more settled, and I have a real office space, that it might possibly maybe be a bit easier.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Where to from here? I&#8217;m still figuring it out. We have a lot of changes coming up, I have a busy work summer, and also want to get out as much as I can with baby. Posting may be sporadic over the next while, and I may take a few detours in terms of content, but I will continue writing. Your thoughts, suggestions, reflections on your own writing are welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot believe that I started this blogging project a year ago. Impossible!! One day I up and decided to write daily for an entire year. Well, here&#8217;s a brief overview of the experience. What I learned: I like writing and expressing myself. This was a great way to do that. 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