returning to writing through blogging

I feel grateful for accessible writers who blog like Penelope Trunk who led me to Leo Babauta, a writer currently living in Guam -- and somehow, connecting to a Chamorro blogger feels like a miraculous return.

Developing a theme for my blog has been a work-in-progress. I hear the advice, "Just write!" and I have had to stray into other blogging territory to affirm that Full Circles will do just fine for now. It could change, meaning my life focus and interests may expand (or sharpen). But I know intuitively that the act of returning to the point of entry, the beginning, and starting anew is a lifelong theme I would like to hold delicately near to the consciousness of my mind and my heart.

There is so much to explore in the idea of Full Circles:

BINARIES

• Fullness and the idea of an almost overflowing bowl of life, related to gratitude and its branch of gratefulness as told by Lynne Twist.
• Emptiness and not quite getting there, not quite knowing your destination, not knowing you have been there already

• The Return -- its unplanned surprise, its welcome and delight
• The Departure -- the necessary sojourn into the void, into the lengthening so that the stretch from the origin creates a wider ring to go around the fingers of God

SYMBOLIC

Circles and mathematics, their arcs and degrees and dimensions. How they represent an unattainable perfection, unlike the more practical elliptical orbit of the earth around the sun. How even our planet is not a fully perfect sphere. Circles can be lonely or paired or in logos, in venn diagrams and bracelets along arms and necks.

Yes, there is much to explore in this circumference of life.

"We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." --T. S. Eliot