Writing to my Children

The other day, my eldest boy surprised me by talking about one of the posts from my blog. I wasn't aware he had even read anything on it. I asked him how he discovered it. His response was rather amusing "I know you are famous for building 111 so I searched Tony Yates 111" 😂 bless.

The conversation continued and it was clear he had read most of the posts, we discussed a number of them, he liked the one about being like the flower. We then talked about him discussing some of the posts with his teacher and the wider class and it suddenly became clear that my writing allowed him to know things about me I probably wouldn't have shared in general discussion, he gets to know me from the perspective I publish.

My grandad recently died and I miss his stories, they are gone forever and live only in the memories of those he told. There was no place or book to go and look at his life through his lens, I scrambled to recall as much as I could and write it down so some of him could live on.

I recently read a quote somewhere that note taking is the nearest thing we have to time travel and I couldn't agree more, it has had such an impact on me I wrote it down and it sits on a post it note under my screen. It's given me a new sense of purpose to blog more. If the audience is just my children then it's already worth the effort to take my thoughts, write them down and publish them for all to see.