So. Blogging.

I've written 4 posts over on Witch.Words tonight.  Two published immediately - well, one by accident, I was going to schedule it for tomorrow night but forgot and just hit "publish" instead - and two scheduled for tomorrow morning.  I feel so productive!  I'm all caught up from the week of midterms, and it feels fantastic.

Why is it blogging does this for me?  I'm not sure.  I learn so much with every post, because I try to be really conscientious about including citations and links and stuff, which means I often do a lot more research than I originally thought a topic would require.  For instance, tonight I learned that CPAC stands for Conservative Political Action Conference, because I needed to know if I should write about "CPAC" or "the CPAC conference".  I know my writing has gotten better over time, too. 

I think, though, that concrete benefits like better writing and more knowledge aside - as valuable as they are - what I love so much is that I feel useful.  This may sound presumptuous, but I truly believe my life's purpose is somewhere to be found in activism.  I am supposed to be working to make the world a better place in this particular way.  I don't know if blogging is where I will stay or where my greatest impact will be made, but for right now, it's a step in the right direction.  And who doesn't feel good when they're exercising what they feel to be their soul's purpose for this incarnation?