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And I've decided on the spur of the moment to participate.  Last time I tried this I lasted a week.  This time I'm going the try really hard to write faster and to shorten my posts by breaking them up into multiple posts.  So we'll see how it goes.

Since I seem to be called more and more to post political items, I went ahead and did it. I made myself a political blog to post politics to my heart's content. It's called The Truth Shall Make You Free. The address is http://thetruthaccordingtosherril.blogspot.com/. I'm participating in Nablopomo for July and the theme is Food. I don't want to write about food much, but pictures are something else! Good Food item pictures courtesy of Bee Green Organic Market, Deli and Juice Bar in Albany, GA This is a Raw Taco Tray made with local Georgia pecans and collards. Yum!

I'm going to try posting every day in July. November didn't work so well for me (holidays etc.), and now they have NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month) EVERY month. Each month has a theme. For June the theme was Home. For July it's Food. I don't know how I'm going to relate each post to food; maybe just a picture of something good to eat. Like this lovely edible flower salad. Would someone make me one, please?

Not. So I won't have that lousy sense of accomplishment from completing the NaBloPoMo challenge. I've gone the way of my predecessor with FM who tried to blog for a month, The Princess of the Business World and Fibromyalgia . I gave it up in favor of my health. Here are some nuggets from The Princess: "Blogging more was just that, more. It wasn’t better, it wasn’t really helpful. I pushed myself to the brink." "This experiment also could’ve been entitled “how to take all of the fun out of blogging & turn it into a very stressful environment”. I burnt out. I started hating blogging." "I did discover that I’m on the right track with how & why I work. Le sigh." So she didn't really fail, she discovered she was on the right track before this particular experiment. I suppose I could say the same. I was on the right track before I discovered that blogging every day won't work for me right now. But I also discovered a few things ...

This morning when I got up I still agreed with the conclusion I came to last night, that I can't do this NaBloPoMo post every day thing. It's too much. I got on the computer to make a post to that effect and instead I did the "Clear Your Clutter, Clear Your Mind" post. I thought 'I'm so close to getting the hang of doing a quick, short, quality (QSQ) post.' Do you see the length of that Clutter post??? Anyway, I guess I'm still in the running on NaBloPoMo and still trying to get the hang of the QSQ post.

I will do my best to participate. It should be good for me. And maybe for my readers. I will have to post shorter - much shorter. And I will see what that is like and if daily might be a better way for me to go. The Randomizer is just an easy way to check out all the participants who are in NaBloPoMo. To be part of the Randomiser, make sure you're registered at the official website and have your Blog URL in your profile. So: What is it? It's NaBloPoMo, November, the month in which you post something to your blog every day, in accordance with the National Blog Posting Month challenge! "Last year everybody just went for it, posting thirty days in a row and maybe hoping to win a prize in the random drawing. This year, for those of you who suspect you might run out of gas, maybe you'd like to try blogging on a theme. Follow a news story for the month; get deeper into an issue that you want to educate yourself about; keep us abreast of how your yoga practice / daily ...