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I came across this beautiful Welsh word for poetic inspiration Awen. I loved the sound of this word and what it represents. Even the symbol and the meaning behind took me on a journey.

> Awen is an important symbol in Celtic culture. It’s a symbol of creativity, imagination, and aesthetic sensibility. In the Celtic language, Awen means essence or poetic inspiration. While seemingly simple in appearance, the Awen holds deep symbolic meaning.

I have generally been bored of every experience I have online, whether it’s reading or writing. Nothing feels exciting or enticing. Writing quick thoughts is easy, but it’s much more challenging to gather them, let them simmer, and then post a cohesive post. This friction can potentially derail the train of thought. The thoughts – they are better out there than within.

My daughter loves her music. Listening to it. Making it. Learning it. She enjoys her music classes and recently started self-learning Ukelele through YouTube. It didn’t take her long to get the chords right for one of her favourite songs. As she performed, I recorded it and up it went on her channel. A new video is out now.

She’s also super excited that she is a click away from reaching 100 subscribers. I calm her down. But the excitement of any milestone is challenging to push away.

I finished reading Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson recently 📚

I enjoyed the first Ernest Cunningham novel with its uniquely fresh narration style. Though the second in the series has a similar tone, it felt repetitively bland this time. The story takes ages to kick off. Humour barely lands and feels there only to fill the pages. The same goes for the “cute” and frequent talk with readers—it just didn’t land for me. It irritated me every time.

I listened to this book this time, and the narration was terrible. It was so fast and messy that I couldn’t understand which character was speaking. I couldn’t get involved thoroughly; I was waiting for the book to end.

Today, I pushed a minor release for Posts Stats plugin that enables (and defaults to) collapsing the table for the posts by year. You can expand the table by clicking the “Show Posts by Year” button below the chart. It should make the page slightly shorter and easier to follow.

PS: If the button to expand the table does not work by default, your theme might not import JavaScript from plugins correctly. Ideally, you should have the following code block around the footer layout. If you are unable to figure it out, email me. I will try to help you debug.

{{ range .Site.Params.plugins_js }}
      <script src="{{ . }}"></script>
{{ end }}

There are two writers within me. One wants me to write as freely and as frequently as possible, blurting out everything that comes to my mind. The other wants me to weigh each word, think deeply, and post only when I have something meaningful to say. Every time they fight, which they do often, my writing stops. I am going through one such phase.

I have enjoyed writing at Scribbles recently – you can follow these posts through the RSS feed. The simplicity of the posting workflow has me hooked. The biggest draw for me is that I can easily begin a draft and expand it with more thoughts across multiple sittings. It’s a lot more frictionless than what I have found anywhere recently. The interface suits the kind of posts I am inclined to write these days - blogging regularly about life and writing.

I am sure the platform won’t work for all. There’s no support for theming. No automatic cross-posting. No markdown. Micro posts don’t sit well on the platform, either. For all that, there’s no better platform than Micro.blog. Scribbles, on the other hand, strips the blogging to the bare. To what matters: writing blog posts. And for that, the platform does enough.

So, keep an eye on Scribbles. It will launch soon to be available for sign-ups.