i had prepared for this year of introspection by buying a couple of those guided journals, but then along came Our Benevolent Deity with this lovely new birthday present blog and i forgot all about them.  so I shall begin to work with them now.

only i can’t.  i never can seem to do it, as much as i love the idea of lists and questionnaires in which you inventory apparently arbitrary random categories, they cause me an anxiety just as soon as i get out of the introductory pages, as soon as i am bid to pick up my pen and list my x, or inventory my y.  i slam the book shut, i panic.  what’s that about, i wonder?

maybe that in itself is a place to start?