Two years ago during the early days of August 2012, I spent 2 days working on setting up VIP on eBlogger. I combined two blogs, my objective to have one place, one url, one destination to capture, record and share one of the activities I love most, writing: telling stories, sharing experiences, photographs, art, poetry and from time to time, including reprints of articles, essays, etc.
Two years ago I wrote the text below, it was then and continues to be now, what VIP is all about. From time to time people ask me why I have a blog. In the simplest form, I want to document and share, I want to participate in the stories of life, I enjoy writing and this allows me an easy, efficient way to engage in writing and to be able to share and have access to the content.
Right behind my desk at home, on the bookshelf that lines the office, there are 15 spiral notebooks that I wrote in daily from 7th grade until I graduated from college. Back then I was keeping a daily journal. This practice of writing is familiar to me and necessary.
In a few weeks, 760 days will have passed. So much has happened, in the world, in each of our lives, our family, work, children, friends. My hope and wish for all who visit these posts or subscribe to them, that you from time to time make a connection, that from time to time you have a new thought or idea or perspective, that perhaps a photograph stirs your heart a tiny bit.
As always I appreciate your comments, reactions, emails and especially your support and encouragement. Thanks from my heart.
Elena M. Arosemena
Atlanta, GA
From August 2012
If you know me, you
know I have structure, order, planning, and the need for details, in my DNA.
Structure and order have been part of my life since I can remember.
I am the child of two amazing parents,
JoAnn Catherine and Rogelio Augusto, both who were driven, appreciated
structure and loved to face and take on challenges and opportunities. I am also
the middle child, the sibling birth order: Ana, Rogelio,
Elena, Carlos, Tobias.
As I've read and been told the middle
child often becomes a life long planner, a mediator, an individual who wants
connections, who wants people, family, friends and colleagues to be connected
and to prosper and grow from the connections.
Part of "planning" for me
requires knowing the possibilities, knowing the landscape, knowing the
expectations. I love to plan, one of my favorite planning activities, travel.
I love to photograph order and patterns. I can remember dates and times,
better than names. I have a clock that projects the time on the ceiling
in my bedroom. My poems, all free verse, 99% of them fit on a page and
are made up of two verse stanzas.
I am all of the above, and yes to a
fault. As much good as order and structure and planning can bring to the
cadence of life, it can also hamper all high structure people from seizing the
moment, from speaking from the heart, from living in the moment, in the
present, in the now, from seeing the obvious and glaring right in front of our
eyes. It can hamper possibilities and opportunities because we don't like
surprises, because we want to predict the outcome.
I work at this everyday, trusting that
there is already a path and a plan and a life scripted for Elena, hence I am
a Verse in Progress.
Everyday, even at 55 years, I am
growing, learning, wondering, hoping, wishing, recognizing, celebrating and
praying.
Verse in Progress is all
of me. I've wanted for a very long time to have a place to write, to
record, to yes, "organize", capture and share the experiences, the
photographs, the thoughts, ideas, prayers, the dreams, the hopes of my life
that matter, that bring joy, wonder, spirit, and learning, the
"verses" that make a difference .
Verse in Progress is such
a place; I hope you will visit from time to time and enjoy the posts.
I've combined all my prior blogs into VIP, with the ability to tag
or label the posts, so anyone visiting can easily get to whatever areas
or topics they may be interested in reading.
Verse in Progress is a
reflection of my mind, heart, soul; a reflection of verses I have written in
the past, those I am living and writing currently and those yet to be written.
I reviewed several definitions of the word verse and the
one that caught my attention: verse is metrical composition.
The word
metrical makes me think of measurement, tracking, cadence, accountability,
compartments, and the word composition, simply the words; the words that record
my experiences, hopes, dreams, plans, aspirations, fears, celebrations and
prayers.
