Blog Your Blessings: One Single Impression

One Single Impression is this week's blessing. It is a new poetry blog instigated and designed by Andree, whose blog Meeyauw, is always a feast for the eyes. Last week she contacted me via my poetry blog to ask me if I'd want to start it up with her. We had just learned that a blog author of One Deep Breath would be closing down.

Andree writes on her blog: "Michael has written the poetry for my photographs. Our collaboration has proven to be an inspiring journey into beauty and art that has been missing in my life. The poets that participated in One Deep Breath, and hopefully in One Single Impression, are gifted. The poetry is motivational and often life-changing. I am beginning to expand myself and write some poetry of my own. All of the participants are supportive and kind (even to someone like me). "

In blog comments, many of the writers who have participated in One Deep Breath's weekly prompts for haiku had also expressed their disappointment that that cyber meeting ground would no longer be available. There was a need as much as a desire to continue. I agreed to work with Andree, she contacted Jennifer at One Deep Breath and suggested we pick up where she left off, and Jennifer was happy to support us.

So began a new blog designed and set up by Andree at lightening speed. Our efforts have been collaborative; though we have never met personally, we nevertheless worked together on the title, the initial posts, and other matters. It was a beautiful and smooth process, a delightful interaction between people who seek creative interaction online with others about whom we know little more than that they share this desire. It is more than enough. We step into the universe blind but nevertheless find our footing.

Creating One Single Impression might keep together writers who just want to write. It can continue pushing back the isolation that has long been a cliche of the writing experience. Here we are doing the best we can and making a gift of it to others. That's all we have to say.

"When the student is ready, the teacher appears" is a Buddhist expression that tells me humility leads to wisdom, that we are each other's guides on the road, no matter how long any one of us has been on it; we can grow like plants simply by opening our eyes and taking in the light. Amen.

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