We all have talents and as the number of candles on our birthday cakes increases, many of us learn to be both comfortable and protective of our talents and to even exploit them for the greater good.
I am not a farmer –I don’t plant and harvest wheat or rice. I don’t raise livestock. I don’t forage in the forest for wild berries to make homemade jam.
But I am a hunter and gatherer of sorts. I am an information gatherer.
There are challenges to being an information gatherer:
How to organize the information
How to remember the information
How to best distill and circulate that information
Like most of us, I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time at home during the last three months of the pandemic. Much of my day was spent in solitude. Thinking. Pondering. Figuring stuff out. Wanting to change something or someone.
Rumi – a 13th Century poet and mystic had this to say about change: Yesterday, I was clever and wanted to change the world. Today, I am wise so I am changing myself.
And after days of ruminating, I’ve come up with a change that will serve you – my loyal cadre of readers – and provide a satisfying modification to my own mundane routine. I’m implementing a new way to disseminate the useful tidbits I come across in my reading, researching and wanderings.
Years ago, my columns used to be 900 worlds. Then when I become a Huffington Post and Sixty and Me blogger, the word count dipped to 600 and has stayed at that point more or less consistently ever since. So when I came across a short vignette, an engaging story or a tale worth repeating, if I couldn’t develop it into a 600 word document, I’d let it go.
And then came a big SURPRISE in my life: Instagram!
So dear readers, here’s my plan for disseminating all the random facts, figures and articles I’ve been collecting for years:
Posting regularly – not randomly – on Instagram
Posting whatever strikes my fantasy or tickles my funny bone or simply cries out to be heard
Some subjects I’ll be posting about:
Preserving Your Bloom (of course)
Father’s Day
A 4th of July love story
The surprisingly simple key to happiness
Surviving the pandemic with sanity intact
Grappling with guilt over getting a pedicure
Staying relevant in our adult children’s lives
Disseminating information is my simple way of making this troubled world just a little bit less burdensome. It’s one more way of preserving our blooms and keeping in touch. I hope I can provide posts imbued with meaning, substance, a little frivolity and inspiration to help us all be the best version of ourselves.
IT ALL STARTS TODAY! https://instagram.com/irisruthpastor
Hugs,
Iris Ruth Pastor