Dear Readers, I Need You

There are many reasons to write a blog.  For instance, I have heard it is a good idea for an author to have a blog to attract fans.  Also, it is encouraging as a writer to have people who want to read one's thoughts on various subjects posted on the blog and hence perhaps even one's stories.  Yet it is not for either of these reasons that I would like to take up writing more regularly here again.

Rather it is because as an artist I must put my work somewhere that it might touch someone.  Even if only one person ever reads it and appreciates it, even if I never know that my words have touched another, I still must write.

For an artist works for others.  A writer needs readers.  Having an audience helps to draw one's work forth from the deep pit within that can be both creative and destructive.

We artists are as needy as anyone else.  We want to be loved even more than other people, if that is possible.  Yet rather than ask for that love, for we are often shy, we put ourselves into our work—no one knows how much of ourselves goes into it—and hold it out as an offering of love.  If you can just appreciate a little this work, that is enough.

So that is all I ask.  If you can appreciate my writing here, please do.

Even better than mere appreciation: if something I say sparks ideas, feel free to comment.  I would be grateful to hear your thoughts, your responses, your questions, and even your ideas for future posts.

For I have many topics I would like to address that I might not dare touch here, thinking no one would want to know my thoughts on that subject.  If I know that someone wants my words woven together as a chain for communicating some of these thoughts, I will gladly bend my will to this task.  This is for you, dear readers, few though you may be.