Intro, Mary style.

For a while now I've wanted to start a new blog. I have been blogging for 8 years at an undisclosed location (which you will never get out of me) but I've been feeling this need to break free from myself. It's difficult to be tied to something I started when I was 19 and a completely different person than who I am now. Reading back entries makes me want to reach through time and somehow change my decisions about things and inevitably the outcome because I was so young an naiive. Unfortunately that can't be done and so I have 8 years of heartache and misfortune locked in internet land for all eternity. I could delete the whole thing but to do that would be to delete a part of myself and that's something I'm just not prepared to do yet.

Which brings me here: a brand new blog in a brand new site with a brand new hobby. Because what better to blog about than letterboxing? Especially since I started just a few months ago and have embraced it with a vengance so I doubt my love for it will die down any time soon. In hindsight I wish I had started this before I even found my first box but I didn't know then what it was all about. I had no idea that a new world would be opened to me as soon as I removed the plastic lid of that precious tupperware box. I had no idea that contained inside would be an entire ecosystem of people, gatherings, new friends, artistic outlets, environmental consciousness and just plain fun. Had I know, I would have documented my journey but alas, here I am 3 months and 143 boxes later and just starting. But I feel like there's so many things that I haven't even begun to learn yet that there's still time. Better late than never, right? :)