"A blog can be like a mirror and I needed to see a reflection of a person I still recognized there after all the changes I'd been through. Because I wasn't finding myself anywhere else."

- from mrs. kennedy at fussy

so, the fussy entry from which the above quote is taken is more about the nuances and struggles of motherhood, as well as its portrayal in the media... but i think its applications can be applied using a much larger brushstroke. [as most good writing should.]

reading her entry reminded me of why i started this. sometimes i wonder about this whole blogosphere thing, and my own addition to the crazy mob... is it all just virtual navel-gazing? are we so full of ourselves that we really need to spill the overflow to the wired universe? creating our own self-aggrandizing dot com for our unlimited selfishness?

perhaps this is what drives the blogging phenomenon. but it is not what drives me. [most days]. a good friend recently shared with me how much she has seen me grow and change over the past several years... how i have started to come into my own... how i have truly begun to find my voice. and this little blog that could has played a tremendous part in that growth. the cause and effect are debatable -- did i start the blog because i had the strength, or do i have the strength because i started the blog? -- but in reality it's probably a decent combination of the two.

what drives you? in what activities do you find your voice? if you blog, why? what kinds of blogs draw you in?