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Hello beautiful people in our various states of being today.  I have just received notification of my 806th follower.  It’s a slow and steady progress in just over 4 years of blogging, not remarkable by any means when I consider some bloggers in their first year have over 3,000 followers. But that said I value all my followers so much and those who have kept reading consistently, well you will never really know how happy it makes me to see the icon come up bearing your chosen image.     Many followers just come for a short time and then disappear which is the way of the world.   My blog is fairly mixed in content as I write in about three main forms ; poems, journal entries based on my own emotional/healing /recovery journey, and (hopefully) helpful information and other writings or perspectives on various mental health issues such as depression, grief, loss, emotional trauma, abuse or invalidation.

I think the layout of my blog could be improved as I see features on other blogs which enable them to show things which don’t appear on my own blog.  I am fairly computer illiterate really, I get by on the absolute basics and could learn more and possibly extend my blog’s radius but for me the writing and self expression is the essential purpose.  I hope to connect with others and when I do and when those connections persist and develop and deepen, well that just makes my heart sing and I do an inner leap of joy.  As a frustrated artistic and writer who was forced towards other careers WordPress has been a kind of liberation for me.  I had been writing for about 10 years every day before I started this blog in 2013 and a lot of that writing now sits about in journals in my study or on old computer drives that have broken down, never to be retrieved.   I write for the sheer joy of it and love to connect to other writers which is what makes WordPress so special for me.   I dont think my talent really measures up to some other talent on here but on the creative days when I can catch the rising tidal swell of an image and the juices are flowing I am honestly proud of some of the poems I write.   But hope always to be grounded and realistic in the level of my self belief.

Anyway to new followers a very big welcome.  If there are subjects you are interested in comments are always open and welcome on my site.  I try to answer them as soon as I can for a lot of the joy of this process to me takes place through healing other perspectives and reactions.  Really being a part of the wider WordPress community has made me feel so much less alone and strange in the world.  I am sure so many feel the same, so for today a huge cyber hug to you all.  Looking forward to sharing the onward journey for as long as you would like to share and travel side by side.  ❤