I was driving along a frontage road and passed under one of those electronic billboards that rotate through a number of advertisements and affirmations. As I went by, it flashed a message that felt connected to a work I just sent to my agent so I pulled a quick U-turn to take a picture of it.
This thought is often on my mind (see: Invisible Things), but it has been forefront since earlier this month when I wrote about the necessity for increasingly imaginative works in kids media as an antidote to the fast, cheap and out of control content social media offers. Anyway, now I’ve put those thoughts in a story and boy do I hope to share that with kids soon.
Anyway, another thing that has been on my mind is blogging. As of writing this, I have blogged every day (but one) in January. I opened with my 2025 affirmations post, and it felt fitting as I sat double-parked, waiting for the billboard to cycle through its various ads before returning to THOUGHTS BECOME THINGS, that I would be treated to a number of affirmations. Here’s a sampling:
They are all lovely messages, but that last one felt really specific to me. When I finally did turn around, I was, in fact, only a few blocks away from an honest to goodness multi-warehouse rummage sale. I parked my car, paid my seven dollars admission fee, went in, and almost immediately realized I was supposed to be somewhere else. I had fifteen minutes so I did a quick dive through the kids books section and came away with 12 new (old) books. Enough fodder for more blogging.
See you in February.