Evolution

I just sent an email off to some friends of our's stating how this blog might very well be undergoing a state of transition. I began writing it pretty much under the influence of chocolate cake and the encouragement of another friend, who said it was easy and could be done just like that (snap your fingers)! The impetuous was to leave a trail for where on the planet Steve and I are and what we are doing there. A blog seemed to have a much more serious level of commitment to it than say, e -mail. Which I was never committed to. Secondary motivations were there too: Greenland does not offer up much literature published in English explaining what Greenland is. As our friends, whom we were eating this cake with and speaking to about blogs, are both travel writers with a very successful book about Mexico, now in its 13 edition (or is it 14Th?) do this for a living, I received much encouragement about blogging on the subject of Greenland. Also, as one posts on their blog, they are nearly daily, writing. This is good fodder for the hopper. But as one writes in this freestyle format one lacks an outline or a goal to meet or develop any congruent idea. The way I blog is similar to the way I ski down the mountain; I may know the general area I am going to go to, but for the life of me, I wont know what I am going to ski until I have skied it. And so my writing about Greenland has evolved into my witting about writing. I guess I have developed a bad case of, writers blog.
What I don't believe is that for any one who is consciously recollecting memories of a past that was at times fabulous , though at other time, traumatic, the experience would be easy or pleasant. There is the desire to burn all the damn stuff I have inscribed with my thoughts during those years on the sea and forget about it, though we all know this isn't possible. ..The forgetting about it. There is also an urgent expectation for myself to cull through it all, as I did the fish and the crab, sorting out what is worthwhile from what is just crap and preserving the "keepers".