Beginnings

“To walk ‘widdershins’ is to walk counter-clockwise or backward around something. It’s a classic pathway into the fairy realm. It’s also the way people often back slowly into the relationships that matter, the real ones that make for a life.”

from the front flap of Widdershins by Charles de Lint

Choosing a name is something that can’t be done quickly or thoughtlessly. I really think that it isn’t so much that you are choosing the name as much as it is hearing the name. My daughter was Imogen, we didn’t choose her name it was already hers. In the same way this place was already named, it already existed before I typed the required information into the right spots. However, I think that I came to it because of where I am.

It feels as though I am talking in circles but I am not, I am just tired and am having a hard time remembering how to write/think/be. So why now widdershins? Because this is my place to walk backwards. Here is where I can write and think and be. Because I am hoping that this will become a relationship that matters.

I can’t make any promises to not talk about babies, politics, education, my shoes or any other topic. I can’t promise any revelations or moments of nirvana.