Sunday, April 20, 2014

Four Years

Today is a milestone for me......four years ago on this date, I became a blogger.  Honestly, I didn't have a clue, Rick ( my hubby) pushed me into this.  I thought I would write a few months, maybe a year at the most and that would be it.  But something happened.......I found connections, I found a voice, and I found new friends.  I was so unsure of myself......yet I continued ........many times, I have thought about quitting.  But here I am, a blogger for four years.

I hope, I pray that my words or at least some of them have meaning.  I have tried to be open and honest, to share my thoughts and lift some spirits.  This has not been an easy path......especially after my treatments started.....that is when I really wanted to quit.  But this blogging in many ways became an extension of my teaching and that is when it began to click for me.  Not that it would become a yoga class, at least not one of postures......but that I could share how yoga has worked in my life and my students lives.  And then came the treatments......and I realized that how many people just in my world sat in those big green chairs......how those chairs changed my world and everyone else who has ever sat in them.  I understood that it was ok to share the world of green chairs, it was ok to talk about it.

So for the past four years, I have shared thoughts (good and bad), yoga, music, and my life in the big green chairs........and you all, my readers have shared my tears and fears through the tornadoes that devastated our state, the joy and sadness of my yoga classes, the ups and downs of our music,
life on a small Alabama farm, the world of big green chairs, and everything else in between.
I am grateful tonight, that you read my words, that you share your comments and you lift me up when I am very low, and share my joy when it fills my heart.  I pray blessings of good health, joy and peace for all of you tonight.  Thank you for a wonderful four years.

6 comments:

  1. Happy four year anniversary on your blog Jilda... I should have popped over to your blog sooner once I found Ricks blog. I have truly enjoyed reading your thoughts.

    I wanted to let you know that I'm starting Yoga on Wednesday nights, I'm excited ... I'll let you know how it goes ;-)

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  2. Congrats on 4yrs! You're a wonderful blogger and I've enjoyed getting to know you over these years. I'm looking forward to your post that says you're done with the green chairs...not with blogging! Have a good week!

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  3. Congrats you shine a light in a lot of peoples lives Thanks

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  4. Congratulations on four years here, Jilda. I am so glad I found you-you write from the heart and that does it for me! xo Diana

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  5. Yay for your 4 year blogoversary!! The blogosphere is a lovelier world with your words in it! Take care
    x

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  6. Blessing on you, Jilda, for 4 years blogging. Rick writes with such honest and a perspective for beauty. I will be back.

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