Last week, a girlfriend sent me an email, which said:
“So, I took a look at your website! I love the blog entries - if someone didn't know you, they might find it all self-indulgent, but I find it quite interesting, amusing, thought-provoking!”
Over the weekend, I went to an oyster roast where I saw a neighbor who told me: “I have been reading your blog. I get to know you much better than I do by talking to you at dinner parties.”
Just today, I was talking to another friend in our community who said to me:
“Why do you write your blog? It’s very interesting. I know more about you than I do my best friend.”
So, why do I write this blog? There are many reasons…
This life transition is a HUGE one for me – from single to married, North to South, urban to rural, everything is different. As I may have written before, when I came down to the Lowcountry to be with my husband, I decided to be happy. Yep, I just decided to be happy. I believe that you can choose to focus on the good in your life, from the way the sunlight shines through the trees to the kindness of new friends to the excitement of learning about a new place and its experiences. Or, you can decide to be unhappy and focus on all the things from your old experience you are lacking in your new one (like Starbucks’ lattes and the home delivery of the New York Times).
Having said that, I knew that despite this decision to be happy, it would be challenging sometimes because the life shift is so big, and it is occurring on so many levels – mental, emotional, spiritual and professional.
I wanted to chronicle that shift, to capture the newness of it all, to shine a Yankee light on the Southern ways in order to give a fresh perspective to people of the Lowcountry who are so familiar with this way of life down here that they might not see certain things, in the same way that tourists used to give me fresh eyes to see New York, and to give Yankees a view into the Southern lifestyle which, in their eyes, is like the movie Deliverance. I wanted to describe the hilarity of my new life -- , especially when you compare that life to my life in the city. (BTW, my husband is especially hilarious. More on this in another email…I’ll be showcasing his hilarity!)
Finally, I know I’ll learn and grow and transform in the process and I would like to share that process with my readers. I have accepted that my new life will probably be a ride, and that there will be scary as well as exhilarating moments. Come and join this ride with me. It will take us places, I know.
Saturday, March 14, 2009
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