Virginia Is For Families

Once again a post at Probloggersmatrix.com has caught my attention and helped me to find the motivation to continue down the blogging road. He really puts things in perspective. And I sort of see it happening around here. But I have no idea whether it is any good or not. It would be great to just look at “It” from a totally objective perspective for awhile. But that’s not possible in my opinion. Maybe you can train yourself to look at your creation dispassionately. Maybe it is possible but not likely to happen anytime soon. And it’s wonderful to have readers who are so encouraging. But there is always that thing in the back of the mind that says, “If your blog was any good there would be hundreds or even thousands of folks here everyday looking at “It”.

You are just playing around Dr. D. You don’t have the talent or intelligence to do anything really special.

But it is still fun to try. I was never very athletic but I enjoyed playing baseball as a child. I look at my son Zachary sometimes and think “How was this amazing athlete produced by me?” The first couple of years in Little League I had one hit. One hit in two years. I would spend hours bouncing a ball off the foundation of our little house. And life went on until one day in year three I found a book about a kid who played baseball. This book inspired me in a way. I don’t remember exactly what happened but I’m sure there was a positive message in there. I do remember going up to bat one day while in a reverie about the kid in this book. The ball came in kind of high and fast. And it went out the same way. I hit it just right and watched it sail up, up and away over the left field fence. I can still see it.

And then you take this great trip around the bases while everyone cheers. It was the high point in my young life and I remember thinking that it happpened because of the book. Because when I went up to bat I wasn’t me. I was the kid in this book.

I wish I could tell you that things were different after that moment. I did hit another home run the next year. I made the school baseball team but never really played much.

What is the point? It’s very difficult to achieve something great. We have glimpses of it every once in awhile. I played the saxophone in high school and joined a regional band. One year we were invited to the Newport Jazz Festival to play. It was pretty amazing to see Sarah Vaughan and Duke Ellington close up. They were all so happy to see each other once again. I have never seen a happier group of people. They had really achieved something.

So we try to accomplish something in life. We work at it. The thing I really liked about this post was the idea that it is fine to be different. Give yourself permission to write the things you want to write and explore the thoughts you want to explore. We have the freedom to do that and it is a very precious thing. Why not take advantage of it?

Maybe I will never make it big in the blogging world. But there is always the chance I will hit a home run. And wouldn’t that be fun?

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