I have just completed 183 consecutive daily blog posts—a content rich, one-half year block of blogging!
So what am I going to do to mark and celebrate this occasion? I am pulling out out my jade inuksuk piece and putting it it on my desk this week. (I have a collection of motivational desktop items in a drawer, and I will occasionally pull one out to act as a visual cue for something important to me that week; my inuksuk is one of them).
For example, last week I placed my Swarovski Crystal Black Swan on my desk to remind me of the impending risk of a regional heatwave and what a superimposed power outage would do to the people here. This led me to a series of tweets that may have nudged some of the local healthcare institutions to be a little more aggressive with their heat vulnerability content on their digital platforms! (As an aside, I don’t think heatwaves—since they are predictable—are usually Black Swan Events. However, a massive power outage superimposed on one may well be.)
And this week? As per Wikipedia, “The inuksuk may historically have been used for navigation, as a point of reference, a marker for travel routes, fishing places, camps, hunting grounds, places of veneration, drift fences used in hunting, or to mark a food cache,” so this week my inuksuk is to remind me that I am on a writing journey, not yet where I want to be in terms of craft, but also not lost, and well on my way to getting there.
Wish me luck!
For more background, read my recent post: Why I Blog Every Single Day.