Every so many months I take a look at flottfamily.com and think “I haven’t posted anything in a while.”  If not for the wonderful pictures Michelle posts of Eliana, there’d be nothing new at all.  Usually after weeks of thinking this, I work up the gumption to post, and in doing so realize I have precious little to say.  Why is that?

I think I should like to write more often; writing was something I loved to do in my younger years but with age it seems that flame has dwindled to a mere spark.  Michelle has been doing a project called “Project 365″ which challenges a photographer to take and post a photo every day for a year.

I wonder to myself if I shouldn’t begin my own Project 365, forcing myself to write a little something each day.  While there will surely be days when the fruits of my effort are less than pleasing, the overall goal I believe is simply to exercise my mind in writing.  If I discipline myself to do anything everyday, then surely after a year I would be better at it.  So if I write something tomorrow and the next day and so on, perhaps those won’t be anything worth reading.  But imagining how much sharper my mind and my writing could be a year from now, it seems awfully lazy to not make the attempt.