Pandemic Ponderings

Is it just me or is anyone else being plagued with a creative mental block? Has your desire to craft or write been replaced with the need to be entertained? Without consciously making a choice, my hands are being drawn to holding books and reading. Watching movies and bingeing on television series has become a nightly habit with this Blog sitting dormant and cold.

Well I’ve tried to break out of this funk several times without success and until I did one simple anachronistic thing; I handwrote a letter. A single-sided missive only two pages long on a letter sized lined pad of paper but it was enough. Correspondence. A single word meaning communication but not just any type of communication; written communication. And to think a fun mental health suggestion from my day job’s HR department was the answer to my writing rut.

Now that I’ve started, a growing list of people whom I have failed to keep in touch with over the years will be the newest inductees to my pen-pal cohort. And not just any pen-pal cohort but a handwritten one. No tablet screen or computer keyboard will be my canvas, just a simple sheet of paper and a pen. I’m now envisioning my wife’s face when I explain why the entire roll of stamps which should have lasted us for years of traditional birthday cards, was used with my weekly pen-pal mailings. I’m hoping that it will be a smile and not a frown, at least I’m pretty sure it will be.

I leave you my faithful and up to now silent followers (is anyone out there reading this?) with a promise to continue to update this Blog with my successes or failures to communicate with my pen-pal cohort. And with each submission, there will be a “Pandemic Pondering” taken from the wall of my cubicle as I amuse and inform my co-workers each day.

January 6, 2020:

Start the New Year off right! Try something new that makes you feel good, or better makes another person feel loved and cared for…

Be Safe. Be Well. And always remain creative and hopeful.

BMW 😎