You might think this is going to be a brilliant post on the power of keywords in your blog. I suppose it is. Whether brilliant or not, remains to be seen. But I’m not addressing it the way you might think.
I’ve spent hours today doing archiving – beginning the process of printing off five years of blog posts and doing all the categorization and assignment of keywords to all but the last months’…before I was paying attention to such things.
You can learn a lot about yourself in this process – or at least see in print what you write about most of the time. Here are the words that come up for me again and again and again:
risk
passion
desire
conversation
life
hope
These words don’t really surprise me. If you were interviewing me and asked me to come up with the list of words that best describe my heart, my passions, my focus, every one of these would be on the list. But how amazing, gratifying, affirming, and confirming is it to see that it’s not just what I’d answer in an interview – but that it’s really what I write about! Again and again and again.
And what’s more (LOTS more), these keywords are things that define my life:
risk: I continue to feel the places in my own heart where risk rings true. I keep venturing to the edge, exposing my desire, and leaping. It’s what I most consistently hope for on behalf of EVERYONE with whom I’m in relationship – interpersonally, vicariously, virtually.
passion: Indeed. I don’t do things mildly – nor is such what I want. I am crazy about fullness, richness, plenty, intensity, yes…passion. I want it in the way I go about my work, my writing, my parenting, my friendships, my life, my love. I’m passionate about passion, really. And I want more!
desire: Mmmmm. So much of this. It just continues. No matter the context (or relative health) of my relationships – past or present – I desire much…on my own behalf, certainly, but also on behalf of others. I desire much on behalf of my daughters and the world in which they live. And did I mention that I desire risk…and passion? I see a theme…Yes, I desire. No apologies.
conversation: I love conversation. Clearly. RENEGADEconversations. Blog Coaching. Friendships. Every relationship. Even with total strangers – in person and virtually. Conversation is the thing through which I learn, grow, express, provoke, get provoked, and oh, I don’t know, experience even more of risk, passion, desire! Bring ‘em on!
life: I don’t mean this just in the physical, heart-still-beating sense. I mean LIFE. Out loud, bold, vivid, on-fire, passionate, risky, and full of desire. I have learned to ask myself this question, “Does this move your toward life or death, Ronna? Choose life!!!”
hope: This is probably the biggest word on my Tag Cloud. It shows up again and again. I can’t escape it – no matter what. There have been many contexts in my life, many stories in which I could have long-ago abandoned hope; but for some reason, I cannot. It cannot be squelched…and it’s what compels my willingness to risk, my passion, my desire, my conversations, my pursuit of life.
Keywords matter, indeed. On more levels than we might have ever imagined.
Why blog? Because when you do it long enough you learn about yourself. You see yourself in a powerful, articulate, and “scripted” way. There’s telling data. There’s anecdote. There’s language. There are keywords that invite insight and a few more things: risk, desire, passion, conversation, life, and hope!
I LOVE that these are my words!
What are yours?
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