Moments that Matter

What Matters              Still Learning This Day Learnings Standing Still Matterings The Way it Is Smatterings Learning to be Astonished S’matterings Student of Life, Still Learning Learning Life Matters How the Light Gets In Voices Mostly Standing Still Awakenings Treasures Noticings Mindful Mind Matters Opening Staying Alive Alive Bubbie’s Blog Gratitude Treasure House Guest House Meanderings Explorations Reflections Curiosities Inquiring Savouring Paying Attention Nota Bene Taking Notice Undivided Attention Choices Spatterings Only this moment Today

Day One

To come up with a blog name is an amazing process!  Each prospective title on my brainstormed list is intended to integrate all I deem important about me and my interests, both succinctly and expressively.  What a task!  Can so much be said in just one or two words?

Following that grand list, I begin the decision-making process, chunking, narrowing and prioritizing the titles.  The job is overwhelming.  What really matters to me?  Maybe I'll leave it for a day and then look again with fresh eyes.  Hmm... fresh eyes ... another possible blog name?    

Day Two 

A little space helps.  The moment I see the list, I know that I don't want my blog readers to envision John Travolta with Staying Alive.  Bubbie's Blog,  I think I will pigeon-hole me into my grandmotherly identity and leave no room for the other shades of me.  I pare the 40 plus into a more manageable 18: 

What matters	Life matters
Voices	Smatterings
S’matterings	Noticings
Nota Bene	Taking Notice
Still Learning	Learnings
A Student of Life, Still Learning	Treasures
Treasuring	Treasure House
Guest House	Openings
Reflections	Savourings

Shockingly, as I cut the list ruthlessly, each slash brings me an outbreak of new ideas --  Wonderings ... Life Lyrics ... Textures ... Embodiments ... Blurring the Boundaries ...  Radical Wonder .... Is it that the mind just loves to create, loves to run wild without constraint?  Or is it that I need to face the reality of my dithering?  My inability to make decisions?  My penchant for procrastination?  No!  Not at all – this is my process.  I honour it, knowing full well that once I do make a decision, the task will be at an end.  The days of spacious rambling, exploring and gestating will be over.  The title will be born.

Day Three 

Another day passes.  Objections to a few more titles assert themselves.  Esoteric ones no longer hold me in their thrall.  I remove 16 without blinking and add 2 new ones, altering  Taking Notice to Taking Note.  And then there are 4: 

Moments that Matter            
Taking Note

Reflections                             
From Moment to Moment

All along I have wanted the blog to be about the things that matter to me.  I want it open enough to have room for what matters in any given moment, or in a lifetime of moments.  Immediately, I scratch Reflections and Taking Note, leaving myself with just two, neither of which were on my original list:


Moments that Matter
From Moment to Moment  


I send a note to my daughter for feedback.  She tells me that she likes Moments that Matter.   She's run it past her children, too.  They both vote for From Moment to Moment.  My ten-year-old grandson says:   "You may only have one good moment to write about, but that doesn't mean it will be your last!"  I am charmed by his astute comment.  And I know that whichever moments I write about will be Moments that Matter.  The decision is made!  Welcome to my blog!