Hello!
So, these days I am writing and maintaining my little website from Germany. Already for over one week. Insane, I know and I keep mentioning it but my brain literally does not fathom how fast a week goes by. And why it has to be that fast. I have discovered a new book club on Friday which was so much fun. Have you ever heard of BookCrossing? It is so amazing. How many books do you have at home that you like but not love and would never read again? Do you want to keep them on your shelf? You have several options. You can donate them to your public library, throw them away, burn them (not a really nice thought!) or simply put them somewhere for anyone to pick up on the streets. Leave books at a café, on a park bench, train station, bus stations, you name it. BookCrossing is the website this book club uses to track the books they leave at certain places. We met at Sonderbar in Coburg, which is a nice restaurant/bar/live-music place with awesome food. It was my first time at the book club so I did not know what to expect. Everybody brought books to share and hand out. If you liked one book, you kept it. Then, you read it, love it and keep it, or simply leave the book somewhere. What an awesome concept. Also, they have two little free libraries in Coburg where many of BookCrossing books “live” – one located at the theater and one at Albertsplatz.
To read a real book is pure pleasure to me; is just one of the best ways to relax. To simply unwind from this crazy world we live in. There is just so much technology available. We download things, read on a Kindle, read online, search online, buy online, it is amazing what possibilities are out there.
Reading articles and newspapers online a lot, it is just natural to for me to follow a couple of blogs daily and I am always speechless by how many are out there. People designing, writing, taking photos, cooking, modeling, I don’t even know how many thousand different blogs are out there – it is just so easy to get lost searching and going through some of them. You like one, read a couple of posts and get a link to another one. It is never-ending. I do get inspired and at the same time overwhelmed. Just the little thought that makes me think is that there are so many topics out there already and how I could be different from everybody else and special, you know.
I do think once in a while if there will ever be a point that I have nothing new to share. Something that has not been out there already. Anything that makes my little website special and worth reading and following. These little thoughts of how I can keep up with all these good blogs and this amazing stuff bloggers and writers are producing. Many bloggers I follow are in this business for years and I just started. You can google anything and it is already out there in a way. Every time I get this feeling, I do remember however that there is only ONE Sometimes Raw website out there and one family that is just unique like mine with our special stories. Usually, by keeping this in mind, I go back to my computer and type along, realizing that I am just a tiny voice in this huge overwhelming world-wide web. Sort of like being in this insane big room and everybody talking and shouting and every single person wants to be heard. But no voice is like my voice. No story is like my story. And no blog is like my blog. So I type along and love what I am doing. And this is the most important thing.
Thank you for reading my blog.
