Chez Spud

What’s your passion? I asked you yesterday and Suzanne from Egg Dip Dip (oh how I LOVE her blog title) was right back in my face with, ‘What’s YOUR passion?’ which is a fair point.

But I don’t know what the answer is. I’m magpie like, flitting around picking up this and that, trying one thing and another but rarely really sticking at something. Many years ago the answer would have been ‘music’ but these days it doesn’t even make the shortlist. That’s a sadness because the sheer joy of singing overwhelms me when I do it. Nothing kicks in industrial quantities of endorphins like a good old sing song. Must must must get back to singing.

Also kicking around as contenders: blogging…photography…crochet…reading…cycling…the cinema and, erm, the internet. God help us all if ‘the internet’ can pass as a true ‘passion’ though … I’m willing to allow passions which are aided by the internet, but passion FOR the internet is strictly forbidden. That’s just plain old addiction.

I’m absolutely intrigued by other people, not just nosy but intrigued. I’ve blogged before about my Story Catching tendencies but does that count as a passion? If it is, it’s certainly an enduring one … I’ve loved catching other people’s stories from childhood and it’s not showing any sign of abating. Thank Odin for blogging, facebook and twitter which gives me a constant stream of material.

So what is it? If you met me in the street and were abiding by the Holstee Manifesto and asked me, ‘What’s your passion?’ what would I say? “Words”, I would reply, looking very pleased with myself and rather charmed to have met a fellow Holstee Groupie.  I am passionate about words. I love writing them, reading them, hearing them and saying them.

My name is Spud. I am the story catcher … the dreamer of dreams…the teller of tales … worshipper of words.

 

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