Last year I found it easier to create posts for my Instagram page, than to write posts for my blog. For me, creating a post for Instagram involves choosing a photograph then writing a short caption about it. Whereas writing a blog post feels as though it requires more thoughtfulness and purpose. These self-imposed rules and restrictions resulted in me creating 92 posts for Instagram, while only writing 28 posts here, for my blog.
I find this curious because what I post in one space is no less (or more) relevant to what I live with each day. Except that what I post on Instagram tends to be more geared towards the creative practice I engage with to cope with my health issues, and what I post here tends to concern the heavier health-related issues and treatments.
I’m not sure why that division developed. However, I will be doing some things to consciously change that this year.
Nonetheless, I decided to use an app to do the work of choosing which of my Instagram posts received the most activity in 2019. The app did the hard work of choosing my best nine posts based purely on hard numbers about how many likes a post receives after I’ve poured my creativity out on a page; and then gone through the lengthy internal debate with myself about whether I want other people to decide if what I’ve created is any good.
I didn’t agree completely with the apps choices. So after reviewing what it chose, I took a look through my page and swapped some of the app’s choices for others that made me happier.
The first grid is a compilation of the app’s choices and the posts I replaced; and I prefer it because it has some emotional input in the choices in contrast to the second that was created with hard numbers.
The second grid contains the choices the app alone made.
Let me know which grid you prefer.
My Small Surrenders 
I like the first grid more. I’m drawn to the first five pieces in the first grid.
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Thank you!
Thats the part of the grid where I made the most changes, and I added pages that I really enjoyed working on — not that I don’t enjoy creating everything I share 🙂
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First one is full of my faves. Great work and glad you’re keeping busy with your art
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Thanks for the supportive feedback!
Focussing on doing creative things seems to be the one thing that does keep me busy & helps to keep me positive too.
I hope all is good with you 🙂
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I’m good thank you. My body has moved into a more menopausal phase which eases the pains but brings new things 🙃. Wishing you a wonderful year ahead
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Depending on who I speak with, menopause sounds like a blessing or a curse.
I hope the ease to your pain outweighs the new things 🌼
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I prefer the 1st grid….mind you, I have a “thing” for flowers 🙂
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Thank you!
I have a thing for flowers too 🙂
A lot of what I draw tends to have a florarl theme. That’s probably because it’s impossible not to smile when one sees or thinks of flowers 🌼 🙂
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