50 Posts

I’ve finally reached 50 blog posts. I published my first post on July 2005 titled Blank and there had been long, dry spells and some spurts in between. Sometimes the pen just runs dry.  You imagine yourself a writer yet you struggle with concepts, with words, with creating meaning. Sometimes the creative juices are overflowing and the pen can’t keep up with the thought process, the buzz in the mind. Sometimes, you just can’t find any reason to write.  In any case, writing is not that easy and that is why I admire those who are prolific and whose talents seem inexhaustible. The same way ink becomes a painting, notes become music, clay becomes a sculpture; words become prose or poetry.

When I wrote Blank, I said I was going to try blogging not to find a reader but to find the writer. I haven’t written much from 2000 to 2005 and it was somewhat of a struggle to try and do it again. So I decided to name the blog Tabula Rasa which I took from Dean Ophelia Dimalanta’s An Unobstructed View.

I have 50 posts. The slate is no longer blank.