What's all this business with making resolutions for the new year? Does the calendar changing from December to January really wipe the slate clean and give us all a second chance at trying again? What is it about seeing 01/01 (or, if you're in England, 01/01) on the calendar that makes us think we're going to do it this time, we're going to lose those pesky ten pounds, we're going to learn French, we're going to pay off our debt and we're going to sit down and write that damn novel?! Okay, Self, take a deep breath. Yes, those are mine. Those are the same resolutions I've been making for years, and yet, every year rolls around and I find myself making them again because I failed to follow through the year before. And the year before that. And the year before THAT.
So what's going to change?
Nothing. Unless I make it so. And this year, I'm making it so by saying STOP.
This year will be about less fucks and more tambourine. Instead of following the beat, it's time to make my own. There are a million words out there waiting for me to write them and there's no way to find them unless I go looking for them. In order to do that, I've got to branch out and put my heart on my sleeve so everyone can see it.
Here's my new sleeve! Check me out at Wordpress. I know, it must seem so tacky, advertising a Wordpress page on a Blogger page, but I've never been one to conform to to social uniforms, (we just don't talk about the year of the polo shirts...) and so here I am, formally announcing my move to Wordpress.
PLEASE FOLLOW ME OVER TO A BIGGER, BRIGHTER, FANCIER, SCHMANCIER VERSION OF YOUR SATURDAY EVENING POET AT saturdayeveningpoet.wordpress.com
New features include pictures (!!!) and audio (!!!) of your author delivering pieces in the voice intended. I think this is really going to enhance your poetic experience and I'm SUPER EXCITED to be sharing this new media with you!
SO COME ON, EVERYBODY... MAKE THE MOVE!
xoxo :)
