Taking Off

Hello world! Mara here, ready to take on the first blog that I will hopefully actually keep going for longer than a week!

I just wanted to tell you a little bit about myself and what I hope this blog will look like in the days and hopefully months, years, etc. to come.

Time and time again, I have started blogs following the usual "don't blog on too broad a topic" rule, with no success. I just have WAY too many interests!!! To name a few: I am, first of all, a Christian, and love serving the lord in children's ministry as well as through my music. I am a recent college graduate with a music degree in performance on the classical guitar (flamenco-y latin styles as well as Bach!). In college, I kind of rekindled an old love of languages and took three semesters in Greek as well as dabbled in some computer programming, spent every semester in the school choirs, and one in the Mariachi band (funny story). In my spare time I love to read, garden, listen to my favorite music ( a wide variety as you may soon find out), journal, play classical and contemporary guitar, read blogs, watercolor, learn new hairstyles, take pictures of everything, sing showtunes, daydream,  research random things that interest me…and that's not even half! I have tried making  gardening blogs and school blogs in the past, but I was quickly bored by them, because I wanted to include blog posts that were interesting to me, but sadly off-topic.

 I have always loved to journal and have stacks of old journals on my shelves and stashed away in my special memory box. It is my favorite way to unwind and unpack even the smallest events of my day. I have recently been experimenting with a form of public journaling with my art journal, I write in such a way that I don't mind leaving it out in the open to where my family can see both the artwork that I put in it as well as the journal entry itself.

 I would like to use this blog as something similar, but also different. Somewhere I can just put up whatever I want, but with more of a blogging style than a journal per se. I am also looking for an outlet for my recently acquired programming skills, and a blog seemed like a fun way to practice tweaking code, etc. What I hope this blog will be is a place I can write about stuff I have learned about and find interest in, my ideas, questions and answers, as well as a little bit of lifestyle journaling here and there. I want this to be a miscellany on purpose and hope that that will keep me coming back to blog! I hope you'll stick around for the ride too!

P.S. cool story- I was taking pictures of this crop-duster plane flying outside my window and accidentally captured a wasp that was also flying right outside my window. Lucky accident resulting in some cool shots!