In Feb of 2011 I started this blog spot. I started it as a college project that was a requirement to complete a course. The criteria called for me to develop and improve a blog site and enhance it as the course advanced. I was to reach out and grow its following as I wrote and published blogs. I will admit that when I first started the assignment I was not real motivated to do anything more then meet the requirements to pass with a solid A. While my passion is to write I was satisfied with hand writing in my journals that now number in the triple digits. I still do the majority of my writing by hand writing in those journals, documenting the moments of my life in assigned journals to the people in my life.
My hand written journals are precious to me and I rarely end a day that I am not handwriting in one or more of them, keeping them updated with the memories I cherish. My thoughts, my feelings, my fears, my happiness. I have designated journals to each person in my life that has impacted it in one way or another. Family and friends, those that have died and those that are still living. I have journals that lay out travel agenda's, where I went and what I accomplished as I traveled the states. Handwriting these days is a lost art to most of the world, but not to me. The times I sit to write in my journals is therapeutic and allows me to relax in a state of mind free of social media, electronic devices and the crazy business of the world today.
In early Feb of 2012 I met a little girl, Grace, that had terminal cancer and was near the end of her fight. I would walk her journey to Eternity with her until late May of 2012 when she took her last breath of life. I spent four months working with Gracie on her story, on her terms. She would dictate the story of her life to me and once she left us I would write the story of her death. There were 40 blogs that were dedicated to my little Amazing Gracie that touches on our time together in the final months of her young life. Those 40 blogs would reach over 29 countries and be read by over 22,000 people. It was enough to blow my blog assignment out of the water.
This was no longer an assignment to me, it was not even a hobby. It has become my mission to share my own journey in life as I followed the lives of the people I love along on their journey's and shared it with anyone who wanted to walk that journey with us. The number of people my blogs have reached is simply outstanding. What started as a college assignment has become therapeutic and important to me. I continue to blog about various things going on in my life, in my mind, and in my heart. While not all my blogs are well read most of them have reached unexpected reads from an enormous amount of individuals around the world.
In 2013 I published over 70 blogs on this BlogSpot I call Beyond A Breath Of Life. In 2014 I published almost 35 blogs mainly due to creating another BlogSpot that has a darker edge to it that I have not yet made public. I have high school students that intern to help me with this blog site, sifting through comments and emails regarding the list of blogs. I personally try to answer as many questions as I can from my blog followers but it has become impossible to keep up with that on my own.
As 2014 ends I can close out this years blog statistics very strong and very much satisfied with how well received my entries have been. As 2015 approaches I am prepared for the long year ahead of blogging more spiritual, heart warming journey's of the people in my life. I am committed to this blog site and the followers for as long as they are interested in following me in my journey here on earth. In 2015 I will share more of my personal journey as well. Where I came from, where I am today and where I hope to be in the future. How I got to where I am, physically and mentally and spiritually.
My followers have made me passionate about my blogs and they are becoming just as important to me as my hand written journals. I appreciate all the feedback you give me and I cannot thank you enough for sharing my blogs with your family and your friends. Thank you for the past three years and I look forward to sharing so many more years with all of you. You inspire me and I truly enjoy conversing with those of you that reach out to me.
I hope your 2014 was everything you hoped it would be and I wish you all a great 2015. I invite you to join me on social media if you would like to, where I also publish my blogs. It is my hope that in the future some of you will want to be a third party guest on my BlogSpot and publish some of your own blogs to share with my followers. If you would like to follow me on a few of my other social media accounts please request my friendship. Again, thank you for being apart of a wonderful 2014.
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