I am not unique in facing a new year and feeling suddenly inspired to do more! and better! and every day!, so here I am again, starting a blog.<\/p>\n
The idea came to me as clicked through to the Rev. Molly Baskette’s tumblr<\/a> the other day. She is starting the new year with a series she calls “Apology for My Liberal Politics.”<\/a> And in the half a second it took to load her first post in the series, the thought flashed: I should write again.<\/p>\n I mentioned it to James (he’s my husband), and he began to ask me questions: “Jot down some features you’d like in a Google doc. Themes, social media, image galleries…do you want it magazine-style or more like a personal blog? What sites do you like? What features do you like about those sites?”<\/p>\n And I was like, “Uh, can’t you just throw a generic WordPress theme on a domain and let me type in it?”<\/p>\n But I married him for a reason, and he’s right. I should think about what I’m doing here.<\/p>\n Which was enough to make me think I shouldn’t bother. I’m not so egotistical as to think the world needs another blogger, shouting about my life into the cavern of the Internet.<\/p>\n But then I went to church today. I have to admit, I didn’t expect to get much out of church today. It is the first Sunday of our pastor’s mini-sabbatical, so we have a fill-in preacher. But I went, because it’s my church, and because it’s important to keep consistant for my kids, and because I couldn’t stand another day of post-holiday cabin fever sitting around the house with a 5-year-old and an 11-month-old.<\/p>\n And the stand-in preacher said something that resonated with me: Hiding your talent isn’t modesty; it’s a form of stinginess. If you truly don’t know what your talent is, ask. And then use it. Because if we are going to build a more loving world, we are going to need everybody’s best to do it.<\/p>\n Well, my talent is writing and editing and communicating. And I’ve been a bit stingy with it of late.<\/p>\n It feels very hubristic to think that anything I can write will make a difference in the world, but at the same time, it kinda feels like writing might just be my best shot at it.<\/p>\n I’m still not entirely sure what I’m doing here (sorry, James), but I’m going to start trying to figure it out. I want to be honest, I want to talk about struggles and successes, I want to talk about right and wrong, I want to talk about the kind of world I want to leave my children. So here I go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am not unique in facing a new year and feeling suddenly inspired to do more! and better! and every day!, so here I am again, starting a blog. The idea came to me as clicked through to the Rev. Molly Baskette’s tumblr the other day. She is starting the new year with a series […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[6,7,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniferlkclark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniferlkclark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniferlkclark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniferlkclark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniferlkclark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jenniferlkclark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniferlkclark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/menu-items\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniferlkclark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniferlkclark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniferlkclark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}