About
About ‘the essential industry’
What is essential: the industry of people, as producers and creators- expressing ideas. The things we simply have to do, and have to be free to do. The things we have to reserve time and resources for, and make the case for their importance. At least to us.
I am not new to blogging, but I am pretty new to blogging without an alias. This means, to me at least, that I am trying to take ownership of my words and opinions despite the fact that people will judge me for them and despite the fact that there are consequences for articulating and putting out there what we see as the truth. It is never easy to put ourselves out there, but I know it is far more difficult for many other people- and they do it anyway. Every day.
I find that having a blog, however modest, can be helpful to many people but can also be hurtful. For some, the fixation with comments and popularity prompts them to spend many hours in pursuit of reciprocal attention. It comes to dictate the manner of their writing or forces distortions for the sake of cultivating a readership. I am not really interested in that, at this point in my life. I don’t want to try desperately to be hip and clever and feel the compulsion to weigh in on every eruption in the blogosphere. I also want to avoid being limited to certain topics, as I have often felt limited in the past. I understand that many readers like that element of predictability, but I guess I am not really about wanting “readers”. I am about connections, and that is why I put my words out there and why I am interested in hearing what others have to say. I don’t have the resources or time to pretend I am a journalist or a pundit. I don’t feel that it meets my needs to reprint the articles of others- and call myself a reporter. That is not really what blogging is about for me. We know that most of our information is second or third hand, at best. What we offer is our opinion, our take, our personal processing of what we hear and read. What we offer is conversation, discussion, exchange.
Please feel free to contact me, about anything. And thank you for taking the time to check out my blog, website, etc. There is a link on the right sidebar to my guestbook if you would like to say hello, leave your links, etc.
