Quote of the day:
How can we make sense of anything that is happening in the world if not through the lens of our own experience? Danny Miller
From time to time I question my blogging purpose. Sometimes I question whether I should continue blogging at all. Lately I have been wondering if I am a real and serious blogger. After all, I do not attend any blogging conferences. And I have noticed that some bloggers receive over 50 comments on their posts regularly. They must have hundreds, probably thousands, possibly tens of thousands of hits a day.
I seem to piddle along telling tales of cats with broken legs and proddings into my own psyche - how boring or meaningless is that? Surely a real blogger writes about important issues, socio-cultural news, or opines politically about the wrongs and rights of everything. Most likely I take the "lens of [my] own experience" a bit too far. After all, who am I to be telling the world (even as teeny as my world of readers is) about my stupid little life?
Would a real and serious blogger write about bringing home Molly's ashes today? Lighting a memorial candle next to the tidy little wooden box that contains her remains ... reflecting on how small the box is when Molly seemed so large and full of life when she was alive. Wondering where or whether to bury her ashes in the near future ... missing my old, furry friend each morning when I rise, each evening when I retire ...
These are the concerns of a real life. Your blog is what you choose to make it. We readers are here because we choose to be... I wouldn't have it any other way!
Posted by: MB | July 28, 2006 at 07:52 PM
Hello The Lady! Really good to hear from you again.
Posted by: tamarika | July 28, 2006 at 07:05 AM
I work for a major news organization. I need some silly in my life.
All those serious conference-attending real bloggers can bite me.
Posted by: Karen aka The Lady | July 27, 2006 at 07:27 AM
Oh dear - my bad case of "out of confidence" and other sadnesses and worries was heard out in cyberspace.
Your comments have given me more food for thought. Self-judgment, important for developing my conscience, is sometimes like an illness that needs people like you to weed out and expose to me.
Thank you, all, for being there.
I *really* and *seriously* mean that.
Posted by: Tamarika | July 24, 2006 at 07:47 AM
Oh I know that feeling, Tamar - my blog is so family-personal-specific that it doesn't get a lot of hits. But you know, I have a core of readers and they really are special to me. Sure, having 50 comments would be fun, but then the pressure would go up and well, I'm not into pressure! I love your blog, just the way it is. I consider you to be a serious blogger, not a commercial one.
Posted by: Adriana Bliss | July 23, 2006 at 05:08 PM