About the Blogs
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I enjoy reading and have always read perhaps too much.
Maybe as a balance, I have also written a great deal. When I was working, that went into code, emails, and lots and lots of user documentation. After I retired, I concentrated on my journal, which was satisfying but very private. I wrote memoirs which were quasi-public, but required a great deal of time and structure.
Then I began blogging, and found it very restful. The earliest entries, beginning in 2010 or so, have been lost. But the general outline has continued: a picture (which helps me to focus on seeing the world during my stroll) and a thought or two, perhaps about the picture, perhaps not.
There are two blogs noted here.
The older one is a kind of nature journal referencing local places and events. While not consciously modeled on Thoreau, some of that same spirit motivated me.
So it goes through the seasons as they occurred, notes changes in frequent pictures, and was posted within the timeframe of the writing.
That was all on Google, and I kept at it until the pandemic.
It is all still available, and I find the earlier entries enjoyable still. I’ll keep referencing it as long as the internet preserves it.
After the pandemic, I decided to try something a little different, so I began an alternate blog in Wordpress. This is more of a current event commentary, a public kind of letters to the editor.
These are written weeks or months in advance, then cleaned up. And posted three times a week.
I continue to take pictures to keep me actively viewing my surroundings, but the ones which accompany each post are somewhat out of synch with the time when the entry was written.
I keep these as short and open as possible, a brain exercise for me, perhaps a brain provocation for anyone else.