1st Cafe Mindworks Blog
So, being new to this wonderful world of "blogging" I decided to have a go at creating my own. Hopefully, the internet realm will cut me some slack and not be too brutal for the time it takes me to become comfortable with this venue.
I've never been much for "putting myself out there" for all the world to see. And creating this website, Cafe Mindworks, was difficult in and of itself. Not the HTML coding or the design of the site...oh no...it was the fact that I pretty much laid my soul bare for everyone by posting all of my original poetry, short stories and artwork.
It's taken 34 years for me to be able to let go of enough of myself to share my deepest thoughts and desires with others...lots of others, via the internet. Oh sure there has been the occasional "friend" with whom I have bonded and shared bits and pieces of myself, but those relationships never seemed to last and with every rejection, I tended to withdraw that much more into my protective shell. Until, at last, it was very clear to me that if I didn't make a break from myself and my old, bad defensive habits, I just might retreat from the world for good.
So, I ended up here. With this website and this blog...hoping that, even if noone else cared enough to read my "journal", that I would benefit from the writing and maybe learn a bit more about myself in the process.
I've never been much for "putting myself out there" for all the world to see. And creating this website, Cafe Mindworks, was difficult in and of itself. Not the HTML coding or the design of the site...oh no...it was the fact that I pretty much laid my soul bare for everyone by posting all of my original poetry, short stories and artwork.
It's taken 34 years for me to be able to let go of enough of myself to share my deepest thoughts and desires with others...lots of others, via the internet. Oh sure there has been the occasional "friend" with whom I have bonded and shared bits and pieces of myself, but those relationships never seemed to last and with every rejection, I tended to withdraw that much more into my protective shell. Until, at last, it was very clear to me that if I didn't make a break from myself and my old, bad defensive habits, I just might retreat from the world for good.
So, I ended up here. With this website and this blog...hoping that, even if noone else cared enough to read my "journal", that I would benefit from the writing and maybe learn a bit more about myself in the process.
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