The Back Acher Farm is my place.
I started the blog, "Tales from the Back Acher" as a result of many hours of thinking thoughts that needed to be out of my brain and put into a tangible space. The "Tales" were stories of my present life. The day to day excitement, the funny quotes, the silly things my kids did, the awkward and humbling mistakes that I made and learned from, my newly hatched chicks, my chickens, my roosters, my animals. Did I mention my pets? Maybe a little photography too, just for fun. But seriously, it has a time, it has a place, and I often found myself hoping my readers wouldn't get so wound up in my stressful existence that they would desert me. I have abandonment issues.
Then, as the years rolled over, I began to see that I was tending to compartmentalize my thoughts into separate categories, on two separate levels:
Level 1: The humorous, the relaxed, the silly, the sarcastic, the fun and the interesting.
Level 2: The serious, the often times depressing, the passionate, the meaningful, and the REAL DEAL.Of course both of those levels are the real me, it's just that the level 2 part of me had a hard time expressing itself in writing. No, I take that back. It never had a hard time expressing itself, it just had a hard time hitting the button that said PUBLISH.
So, in an effort to be more transparent, as I have recently committed to my friends and my husband that I would be, yet to also be a little less in-your-face about my postings, I have created this blog called "The Heart of the Back Acher". It is a place where my deepest thoughts and emotions will be shown, if I feel like it, and a place where I want to feel safe to post my beliefs without any fear of comments that go against what I know to be true. It's where my heart speaks.
As far as my other blog goes, I am THRILLED to have a more concrete direction for it. I had felt as if I'd been neglecting it, simply because I didn't know what to do or how to do it. As a perfectionist, the tendency to just do nothing if I couldn't do everything right, kept me from enjoying it as much as I wanted to do. I want to keep that space for my most public self - the one that is funny, outgoing, excited about life and ready to show it. I don't intend to chase anyone away, but if you don't like hearing about my chickens, or reading about my kids, or hearing about our adventures then you probably shouldn't go there. I also welcome readers to this more intimate side, as I gain up some momentum to post a few things that are heavy on my heart in the coming weeks and months.
With that said, Welcome to the new dual-personality me! (That just sounds scary)
Thank you my faithful friends and family - for your comments and feedback to me both on and offline, your encouragement of my abilities, and your flexibility. I love you all!
