Happy 5th

Yep: today is my blog birthday. Five years ago today I set up a little blogger account, set about learning a little html, and set out on a wee little adventure. And oh what a long, lovely, wild trip it's been :)

I went back to take a peek at the first entry and thought: dang, woman, how far you've come. (seriously, those of you who've known me that long: dang: right?!?) (even as I see that I'm still struggling with some similar things, ehem, hello weight issues :)

And what I realized is that I started this blog at the beginning of a massive series of changes in my living, that in fact this blog began as a way for me to understand, to cope with the seismic shifts going on. 2003 was the year I began to let go (or had forcibly wrenched from my paws) the energies I had generating behind such concepts as "healer", "soulmate", "best friend", "money", "teacher", and "home". And the impact releasing those energies had on my living was so profound, has changed my heart and mind and life so intensely, that I sit here and type this in the hometown I grew up, finally healing so many childhood wounds that I've lost count, a master's degree under my belt, finishing up a novel (honorably and with heart) I began a decade ago, standing strong and clear on my own (even as I begin letting in more and more people who are loving and supportive and just plain cool, and feel a new appreciation for those wondrous few who've chosen to stay with me during the past five-year odyssey, you know who you are :)

The link is several posts in one, imported from blogger when I switched over to typepad. The first entry is at the bottom, though "Lost and Found" near the top remains my favorite. Yeah.

How far have you come? What birthday are you celebrating now or in the near future?

Comments

[Jenn]

Congrats on the birthday - I haven't been here since the beginning, but I'm happy to be on board now. : )

I hadn't really thought about it, but for me, soon it will be the two year birthday of not being in the relationship/engagement of crap. Which is also pretty much the two year birthday of realising its my life, consciously deciding to be happier, and not putting up with this crap anymore. All in all, a pretty good birthday I'd say, especially considering it seems to have been the start of a new way of living and a new consciousness about me and what I want and need. Perhaps there should be cake. Or green smoothie.

[mm]

Dear Kate. Happy blog birthday. Yours was one of the first blogs I ever discovered and I went back in the archives and read everything ... Amazing journey.

Just celebrated the first anniversary of The Move, and my own birthday is next month. I'm relishing both (and I'm amazed I can say that).

[~C4Chaos]

happy Blog anniversary!(cyber)time flies when you're having fun :)

don't you just love going back to those old entries, see old patterns, laugh at yourself, relive those special as well as emotional moments? that's why i dig blogging too.

take care and keep the blogging muse flowing...

~C