Blog Brag: Patty Godinez
Patty Godinez – “The Blowing Branches”
http://pattygodinez.blogspot.com/
My blog is about a woman who lives, writes, and shares. It’s an outpour of creative expression to the anonymous world. My intention is to share and to connect with people who read, write, and blog for the sake of doing it. My hope is that my blog inspires more people to share their creativity. I believe whatever our creative inclinations are, we must share them. What good are they if they are kept safely hidden on our bookshelves? Blogging is a way to share fragments of ourselves in order to reconnect with the rest of the world.
I remember learning about Emily Dickinson and how her sister found her poems and published them after her death. That was a terrible fear I lived with for a long time. What if no one ever knew where they were? Could I just tell my own sister about them and hope she outlives me? I believe Emily Dickinson would have blogged if she would have had the expressive freedom we have today. So I write and post. Just like that. With one click, I experience a cathartic release, and hope with all my being that it finds its way to the eyes of a reader who can relate or to one who will respond in one way or another. Bloggers need the feedback like fuel to continue the momentum; otherwise we just wither and die a slow and painful death. By the way, I love melodrama. It’s no wonder I am a huge Morrissey fan.
I believe we are all creators and it is our obligation to share it with the world. That’s why I blog. Nevertheless, I will share that I have experienced numerous fears, doubts, and insecurities when blogging. I have often taken postings off and then put them back on, simply because I was afraid. Other times, I took them down when nobody responded to them. And then I realized that it doesn’t matter if people respond or not so I post them again. I have also experienced the dreaded “writers block” when nothing comes out of me. I continue anyway. When this happens, I look back at old writings and post them. I find that the more I post, the easier it gets to stand naked in front of an anonymous world.
I encourage visitors of my blog to share their talents, whatever they may be; to engage in a conversation about their vision of the world as it may relate or conflict with mine. My hope is that they pick up on the fragments I put out there and construct their own meaning. My blog is my letter to the world, one “that never wrote to me” as Dickinson cleverly writes.
I love you all more than life. Keep writing, keep sharing, love well, and create with your expressive powers, whatever they are. You know them better than anybody else.
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