Nature & Animals Win

I’m torn between making this blog a blog about family, relationships, love and those sorts of ruminations and making it a blog about gardening, snails and other cute animals. I’m not interested in having this blog be my diary, but I’m interested in doing some carefully crafted writing. However, as I’ve started writing, I’ve been getting more and more interested in what has come to the surface.

The list of categories at the bottom of my blog show topics that are very important to me, give or take a few items. That’s neat to see, because I didn’t really choose them. My writing sort of chose them for me. I assumed I’d be talking about family, love & friends … in that order … but, so far, that hasn’t really been the case. I’m not saying that family, love and friendship won’t pop in every now and then or that those topics won’t ever dominate … they likely will. But, for now, other random stuff that I love is coming to the surface … and that’s been a nice surprise.

Sweet Strain?

There are multiple definitions for that sweet word, “strain,” but I’m going to tell you the ones that work for me:

1  a: lineage, ancestry

2  a: inherited or inherent character, quality, or disposition <a strain of madness in the family>  b: trace, streak <a strain of fanaticism>

3  a: tune, air   b: a passage of verbal or musical expression   c: a stream or outburst of forceful or impassioned speech

4  a: the tenor, pervading note, burden, or tone of an utterance or of a course of action or conduct   b: mood, temper

Sweet lineage, sweet disposition, sweet streak, sweet music, sweet note or sweet temper. That’s what I mean by “Sweet Strain.” How much more all-inclusive could one, beautiful word be?