I started this blog a while back and wrote up a few entries and then stopped. While I am compelled to write poetry and fiction and try to publish it, I don’t feel similarly about blogging. I came across the following quote from Marilynne Robinson (author of the excellent novel Housekeeping) that best expresses my thoughts on the subject. She, however, is talking about keeping a journal, which is often a private matter, while blogging is always public. That is an important distinction, and a good reason for me to leave off with blogging.
“At various times in my life I’ve bought a little finely ornamented volume with a clasp, and written a couple of days’ worth of reflections. And then I come back to it and I think, What an idiot.”
Someday they’ll invent a way to post blogs without having to use words or sounds or images. When that happens, I may reconsider.
