On a little project.

So I feel like I've reached a nice little plateau. I still have my ups and downs, but the lows aren't as vastly chasmous as they have been in recent years - they're usually just exhaustion and stress-induced now, which is a pleasant level of normalcy that I can appreciate.

When I started this blog up at the beginning of 2013, it was with the intention of writing more. Sure, it was to document the bits and pieces of this particular year of my life, but its primary purpose was to get my brain back in gear when it came to putting words together. And I feel like I've made progress; Lis has always told me 'Never a day without a line', and I've got a pretty good percentage so far.

I feel like I need to take a break from spouting platitudes and babbling about the minutia of my daily life, so with the upcoming new month, I figured I'd try something different. Some of you might know that the only degree I ever got around to finishing was in Poetry (yes, feel free to laugh, I do) - it's been on my mind as of late, pursuant to recent conversations with coworkers and regulars of mine. I've always enjoyed it; good poetry does some great things with the music of language, not to mention the exercises in brevity, meaning, and wit.

And if I'm going to be shaking the dust off of my writing, I may as well get back into something I used to call myself a specialist in. So I'm going to spend the month of July writing poetry. It'll almost always just be a couplet each day, maybe a quatrain if an idea needs more expansion. Maybe I'll throw a sonnet in there for funsies if I get a day off. Shit might get crazy around here; you never know.

And I know it's short notice, but I'd love for you guys to join me, if you're so inclined. You don't have to do every day, and you sure as shit don't have to follow in my structured footsteps. Just play with your words and see what happens. C'mon, it'll be fun.

Nulla dies sine linea.