On the 15th March, 2019, I was kicking about in Sydney. While my hosts were at work during the day, I was filling in time and decided, on the spur of some inspired moment, to start up a blog. It wasn’t something I’d planned or even really thought about but it obviously satisfied my loose-end desire to start something new.
Here we are five years later and Everyday Thoughts of an Artist is still hanging on. Strangely, I can’t decide whether the first post seems like yesterday or whether half a lifetime feels like it’s shot by since those first nervous, out-in-the-world words. There’s still nervousness in 2024, but also a stubborn bugger-it-I’m-going-to-do-this-anyway sort of vibe.
I was going to get out my printed book of posts so I could see what I had written on 15/03/19. Unfortunately, I can’t get to my writing bookcase because of extra large paintings leaning against the shelves. Ha! The arts crowding in on each other. Irony. And rather nice.
Thanks for being part of it—my precious fourteen followers! Haha! Luckily, it’s about the writing and not the influencing!
I’m still loving it. Here’s to the next five years, or even the next fortnight. Let’s not pile the pressure on!
Warmest wishes,
Kirsten
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