Blogging a Five Element Life. Nora Franglen

      CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

      This is my second book of blogs. My first, On Being a Five Element Acupuncturist, covered the period from 2010 to 2013. This book continues on from then, ending in March 2017.

      I often ask myself why I so much enjoy writing blogs, and I think it is because I love passing my thoughts on. Each blog is a communication between me and whoever is out there reading them. I don’t write them because I want feedback from my readers, and the same holds true for my other writing, that of my books. The important thing for me is that my thoughts should be sent out into the world, and, as I love words, in the form of words.

      I regard each blog therefore as representing a thought, something which has occurred to me, often sparked by the thoughts of others, such as in books I read or conversations I have. If I worked in a visual medium, a blog would then be like a painting, encapsulating one moment in time, whilst my books would be more like a film extending over time.

      Whenever I write, I like to think about something a very wise old Viennese musician and astrologer, Dr Oskar Adler, a friend of my family, wrote in one of his books. He said, ‘Everybody has a duty to pass on whatever they have learnt. You never know who will read it and who will learn from it.’ Since I started writing, in my late 40s, quite late in my life, I hear his words echoing in my mind. So each blog I write, each representing a thought of mine, is my acknowledgement of what Dr Adler said. For who know where these snippets of thoughts of mine are ending up? I will never know, but I like to think of them winging their way through the ether in blog form or over the seas in book form, as here, for the many people round the world who sign up to read my blog.