an explanation of what follows

this blog has been quite challenging for me, battling between posting to meet expectations and simply including what it is that i sit down and write.  in the recent past writing has been quite therapeutic for me and so on a regular basis i sit down and write something, and for some reason i just leave it unpublished - sometimes it feels unfinished, sometimes i don't have a photo to go with it, sometimes i don't know... but i've decided the reason i have this blog is so i can have a journal.  this is mostly for me and the few loved ones who still stop by to visit.  so tonight i sat down and went through my unpublished drafts and either deleted them or published them and that is what follows - drafts that have sat in the archives and are now free