I have often blogged about therapeutic writing and I do believe in the power of positive thought, and yet, as my sister recently pointed out, I have taken on a negative title “Writing in the Rain” and a negative tag-line “It hasn’t stopped raining yet” for my blog. She thinks I need to be more positive. Even my frilly umbrella is trying to get the message across. Last week it broke. I think it’s time I took notice of the two of them (my umbrella and my sister, that is, but not necessarily in that order!)
I’ve been writing this blog for almost a year and I don’t want to change its title now. Besides, there will inevitably be rain in my life and I will, no doubt, continue to write in the rain. We all have to write in the rain sometimes, but I hope there will be sunny writing days too. And so I’m going to change my picture from
to
just to prove that I can and do write in the sun too.
I think Writing in the Rain is positive. To me, it says you are still going, even though the rain is falling.
ReplyDeleteI love this picture of you writing! I find it very inspiring, makes me want to sit down and write.
ReplyDeleteLove the pic Ros, but it's a bit serious. Where's your smile - even under your brolly you are smiling and looking happy?
ReplyDeleteI also think the title of your blog is cheerful and positive.
Hopefully there will be plenty of sunshine in your life from now onwards.
Great pics :) I've never - ever! - thought of you as anything but positive and sunshiney! :)
ReplyDeleteHi Merrilee, yes, you're right of course. I just felt I needed to add a bit more of a positive statement to my blog header too.
ReplyDeleteThanks Karen, good to think I've inspired.
ReplyDeleteHi Ann, I know! I'm not smiling! I agonised over that for hours but it's very difficult to look like you're concentrating on your writing and to smile at the same time. I have a whole row of photos on the camera where I range from the mildly inane to downright dopey so I went for the serene look instead... and the sun really is shining in the garden so that's got to be a big plus... hasn't it!
ReplyDeleteThanks Jemi but I do know that my outlook has been a bit cloudy lately.
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