Blog #500

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

                                                                                                    Mark Twain

Seconds before seeing the ball hit the racquet, I was already in pursuit.

It drove Van the tennis pro absolutely crazy.

He would scold Where are you running to? You need to wait for the ball to land first before you run.

Yet that is precisely what I have done with my blog. I just started writing it—with instinct surveying its course. I trusted that the right direction would be wherever my words led me.

I simply wrote one post at a time--exploring thoughts as they came—with no worries.

And here I am—at blog post 500—something unimaginable to me when I began filling the page.

My blog is one of my greatest achievements—second only to my success as a parent.

I believe that I may now officially call Thoughts from Karenland a proud body of work—a compilation only I could have created.

And I would argue with Van the tennis pro that even though I did not know with certainty the precise location of the ball’s landing, by observing the angle of the racquet head before the ball was struck I could make an educated guess of where I ought to be running to.

I was rarely wrong—which also drove him absolutely crazy.

Because faith and instinct forerun creativity and motion. And when you trust in yourself, where you land has less import than the unbound choice to take flight.