Bare

You may (or more probably, may not...) have noticed that some changes have gone down on my blog during the past few months. Name changed from "Laughing Lioness" to "Bare"...background image changed from what I wanted people to think was whimsical and creative / pretty (see: "Mundane") to a background depicting a 'vintage' camera with some photographs lying under it.

This theme is alot more true to who I am because truth be told, I am not that whimsical picture. Not by a long shot. At best, my mind jumps between thoughts and processes and people and ideas alot. And memories come back to me as randomly as those photographs (yes, the non-digital ones we used to have) after they have fallen out of the box, and were shoved back into the box unsorted. As much as I love the structure of being able to sort my photographs digitally by date / holiday / life events (left-brain), there are few things as exciting to me as holding an actual photograph in my hand, flipping through a stack of (unsorted) photographs uncovered in a cupboard or a box somewhere (right-brain).

Having nearly reached my mid-thirties (already!), I have been fortunate enough to have journeyed to a place where I am embracing more of the truth of who God has made me to be, becoming less apologetic for who I am and the dreams in my heart, and straining forward to have the extended impact that I think I have always wanted to have in the lives of other people.

So in short, I think the blog will definitely be a whole lot more honest than what it has already be, and I will aim to make it a great deal more relaxed, and real Mishy-like. Bared of all pretence and 'fluff'. Some of you that know me well may argue that it has already been that. But I think that there's a part of me that needed to say that. Needed to write that. Needed to see black on white that I have made it to my mid-thirties despite thought that I would not survive stuff (i.e. matric exams, living back in SA after a couple of stints abroad, having had my online-dating heart broken 5yrs ago, etc.).

What you may also notice is that I finally figured out how to enable comments to be added to my blog posts (yes yes...I know). So please, feel free to leave your thoughts on the posts - past, present, future. I would love to hear what you are thinking and if the blog is even relevant at all.

So...I guess all that's left for me to do is wait for some inspiration... ;)