Well, after nearly two years off, I'm starting blogging again.
Why? I hear you ask. well, that's not true really, I suspect that you've all gone away and are unaware of this post! But the question is still relevant to me, as I will be spending some time posting stuff!
I was really sad the other day to see Hopeful Amphibian's blog come to an end. It was one of three blogs that I visited every day. I loved the mix of humanity, thinking and questioning that 'Hopeful' did on those pages and I shall miss him - not just his ideas but him, the man who I was getting to know in our strange e-like way.
Anyway, I wonder if blogging is a seasonal thing? We do it for a while and then lose the energy for a while. The Maggis and BBAs of this world are marvellous exceptions to this apparent rule. Well if that's so and if others find blogging and commenting as much of a blessing as I do, then it behoves us to share the conversation around.
I stopped blogging a while ago because it became a bit too much like hard work. I wanted to say really thoughtful, interesting and generative things and I found myself thinking too hard and refining posts to be as good as I could get them (like writing an academic article). But what I want to do is post 'half-baked' stuff, stuff that is intriguing me but where I want to be a part of a conversation (rather than trying to have a final word).
I don't know if I'll succeed, I know I won't be an adequate replacement for Hopeful's blog but I will be a place where we can think aloud and do some verbal pilgrimage.
I'm glad you're back, Caroline.
Posted by: Mike | January 12, 2007 at 07:27 PM
hello...found your blog here from Graham over at Leaving Munster....Like what I have read thus far.
Posted by: Jason77 | January 12, 2007 at 09:31 PM
two years off? I was sure I was reading you through 2005... in any case, nice to read your thoughts again. especially half-baked - thoughts are sometimes more interesting before the polish is put on!
Posted by: maggidawn | January 13, 2007 at 11:30 AM
I remember such a predicament myself. In response, I created a category called "Letters to Henri Timings" (Henri Timings is an anagram of 'resting in Him'). In it, I simply rhyme off things that are in my head (and heart, if you want to get technical about it lol) but may make sense only to me at the time. Some of it reads like Henri and I had already been chatting about it. It's funny (to me) but a great outlet when I just can't put anything intelligent together. :-)
Wishing you the best in your half-baked approach. :-)
p.s. Noticed a 'Daily Conversation' error - Pigrim's instead of Pilgrim's. ;-)
Posted by: Cornelius | January 14, 2007 at 12:12 AM
half-baked is often the best :)
Posted by: Lorna | February 02, 2007 at 07:05 AM