Participating in Blaugust this year got me out of my cave. I haven’t really written in quite some time, for a variety of reasons, but I wanted to push myself to start again this month. I din’t have a goal, at least not one that I said (or wrote) out loud. Knowing myself, deep down I wanted to write 31 posts, but I wasn’t going to pressure myself to do it. I’m already weighed down by a lot of other things. I didn’t want this to become one more thing. I had absolutely no plan coming into this. I didn’t even do any of the prompts, including the intro one, which I typically do and have done in the past. If you stumbled upon my blog during Blaugust, I’m sorry I didn’t properly introduce myself. I hope you got to know me some other way. I wrote every single post the day of. Sometimes I’d have to backdate (or back time?) a post when I was writing about something that happened that day because I didn’t have time to publish it. I didn’t plan ahead. I didn’t have drafts waiting to save me. I just wrote. And wrote. The central theme of my posts this month was grief, because I am currently surrounded by it. I probably will be writing about it for days, months, maybe years to come. I know that it will ebb and flow. I’m still learning how to carry it within me. When I wasn’t writing about grief, I wrote a little bit about my days. I shared more photos on this blog than I typically do. Those usually live on August Morning, but I haven’t posted there in a while. That may change after this month. We’ll see. This month, I processed my grief over losing Cocoa. I still am. In August 2025, I started processing the loss of my job, and what I thought was the loss of my identity along with it. I am hoping August 2027 will not be about loss. I don’t think I’ll be continuing to post daily, but hopefully I’ll continue to just post. I’ve still got a lot of words clanging around inside my head that I need to let out. This is just the beginning. ♾️ Related: Notes on the last day of Blaugust 2024 Comments If you'd like to comment, please send me an email, or sign my Guestbook. 💬 Community Echoes The Labors of Blaugust 2026 Blaugust 2026 In Review Reply by email