Well, that was a nice break. I haven't been over here in quite a while but lately I realized I miss blogging. I abandoned it for a while, not sure if I'll ever do it again at the necessary pace, but it's a good outlet and a good way to record things. Facebook's great for immediacy (is that a word?) - pretty much all of the folks whose blogs I followed are active on fb. And I know quite a few people have equated the timeline feature to Myspace or blogging, but it isn't the same feeling at all.
For a while there, I experienced a horrible self-imposed pressure to write well. And when I couldn't write, I would post pictures of events I'd attended - pictures told the story well enough without words. I have no idea where I got the idea that my site needed to be anything more than craptacular. I had four readers and 3 were family. But it felt like work, I already had enough of THAT, and I stopped doing it. I got into the nightly facebook party, and for a while it seemed like enough.
Recently, thinking I was totally done with blogging and seeking ways to cut the monthly hosting fees from the budget, I was looking into ways to basically cut/paste most of the contents into a portable, saveable format. I thought I would just go throught each month and take the two or three posts that mattered, and keep them, delete the rest, and eventually shut down the space. But BUT BUT BUT. Big discovery . . . the stuff that mattered when I re-read it after a long gap wasn't the stuff that I expected to matter. The posts that I thought I would want to retain were worth retaining, but so was the crap! In fact, those little uneventful posts were the ones that invariably made me sit up and say "Hah! I remember that!"
But I wouldn't have remembered it otherwise. And THAT, in a nutshell, makes the whole exercise of blogging worthwhile. I'm gonna try to keep at it. This promises to be a year full of things I will want to look back on.
