After months of feeling weak, it feels good to be on the mend. Contributing to my better health I credit blogging as one thing that makes me strong.
Wickenburg Walk #3 Looking at Doors
- Blogging gives shut-ins daily contact with the outside world.
- Bloggers suggest ideas that help. Today I am rinsing my mouth out with peroxide to cure the canker sores that accompanied whatever it is that I have had. Cee Neuner’s idea. It’s working.
- Looking at photos reminds you of better times as you prepare blog posts.
- Interviewing bloggers gives you a chance to go deeper with them and their blogs and cements friendships.
- Interviewing bloggers also brings in friends of friends and occasional people who have visited your blog that helps establish those budding friendships. I didn’t realize it until I sent Toonsarah a book review link in which I had featured Amy of Share and Connect, one of the Lens Artists on my blog.
- Participating in challenges, stretches your thinking and keeps your mind strong.
- Blogging helps you solidify your opinions and be flexible to change them as you need to when you read comments.
- Blogging sends you outside and on trips in search of new photo opportunities.
- Blogging gives you an opportunity to seek out and apply new skills. These pictures were all straightened, and the colors strengthened using Bridge thanks to lessons from Cee Neuner. Being able to straighten pictures allows me to overcome my astigmatism.
This post is my contribution to Thursday Doors, too.
Do you think I love blogging? You would be right if you do.
Marsha Ingrao - Always Write 
44 responses to “Bloganuary: Blogging Makes Me Strong”
Wickenburg is on my list of places to go “one of these days.” We just got my mom into a small care home so perhaps my life will open up enough to get up to Prescott one of these days. 🙂
janet
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I hope you can. I’d love to meet! These are special times for your and your mom, I’m sure. Breaks are essential, though!
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We blobbers are the best. You are so right, blogging takes you places and brings you the best people and knowledge and beauty. And your doors are lovely.
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Thank you Manja. Yes, we are! 🙂
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I love your blogs Marsha! What a lovely post! So glad to hear that you are on the mend!
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Thank you so much Aletta. 🙂
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I too love blogging and the learning and contact it brings me. Thanks for sharing Marsha
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Thanks for being part of my world and reading my blog, Sadje.
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My pleasure, entirely!
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🙂
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I love your thoughts about blogging, Marsha. Given the proximity to the next version of Thursday Doors, I’m going to include a link to this post in that group. I wouldn’t want anyone to miss that caboose! I love trains. Thanks for including our challenge.
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Thank you so much, Dan. I’m on the prowl for doors now!
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Yay!
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And blogging allows us to go on amazing holidays with wonderful friends. Who would have thought that would happen when we wrote our very first posts. 🙂
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I know! It’s been the most amazing journey, hasn’t it? Never in a million years would I have believed that what happened between us could have EVER taken place. Now those have been MEMORABLE EVENTS!
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Absolutely!
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three cheers for the power of blogging!
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Hip Hip Horray
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🙂
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Love the door on the caboose!
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It’s pretty cool. I was impressed with how much paint was on the bumper and in how bad of shape it was but with all that paint, it looked pretty good. 🙂
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I’m glad you are feeling better. The connections I’ve made over the nine years I’ve been blogging – both virtual and IRL – have gotten me through these last crazy couple of years on much better footing. It’s hard to feel isolated when you connect with so many people all over the world.
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Exactly! To think a blogging connection could be so strong that it took me – by myself- to be with a friend for three weeks, and she and her husband to see us for two over a period of about four years. We were just reminiscing about that.
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I love this post Marsha and would not have thought of blogging as a way to be stronger. You are right though. As bloggers, in addition to the reasons you’ve given, I believe it improves our self-confidence, our connections with others. I’m glad you are feeling better. Take care. x
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Thanks, Sue. Blogging is an amazing process. Who knew it would be so therapeutic?
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Yes and creative. Sometimes I feel I have nothing to write about and then something comes to me and my fingers fly across the keys. It is very satisfying x
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It is. I’m impressed that you do podcasts. I tried to create a few, but technically they bombed, and I was too embarrassed to try again. I love that you have mastered that skill, Sue.
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Marsha, I’m self-taught and I don’t have all the fancy equipment. I’m more about the content and sharing stories of Women Over 50. I love it as I feel I’m helping Women to live life their way. You should give it a try. I was scared to push the publish button but I did and the world didn’t end. xx
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I did get some better equipment, which is a mistake for me. Then the equipment scares me as much or more than the process. 🙂 Maybe we can talk more about it. Let me admire your work for a while. 🙂
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Blogging makes me stronger. I like it!
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Me too! 🙂 Thanks, Goldie!
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What a wonderful source of help Cee is. Does the peroxide have to be diluted? Or you’d have a bleached tongue and sparkly white teeth. I love it when someone new comes to my blog and I can follow them home and find out a bit about them. Sounds creepy put that way, but you know what I mean. And sometimes I’ll select a name from the comments and go visiting. It’s surprising how many people we all have in common. It all takes time though. You are a master blogger, Marsha! Mistress doesn’t sound quite right.
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LOL, You don’t have to dilute it, and my sores are almost gone in one day! They don’t hurt at all. Cee has given me so many tips about so many topics. We don’t limit our talks to photography.
I do the same thing with comments. I will even follow comments home from someone else’s blog if they look interesting enough and I have time to do it. I may have found you that way from Carol, the Eternal Traveller’s blog. I’m sure of it, actually. 🙂
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Glad that you are on the mend, Marsha. These are very wise words about bloggin.
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Thanks, Donna.
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All good points. I’m glad you’re feeling better.
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Thanks Chel.
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what a great title to moving on and feeling better an of course your pictures are inspiring. 💖👏👏
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Doors to the future! 🙂
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I’m looking forward to those! 💖
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Bright and wholesome! 🙂
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Oh Marsha, you do love blogging. I agree it makes me feel stronger too. insert cyber fist bump you go girl 🙂
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You are too cute. Cyber fist pump right back with wiggly, exploding fingers.
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