Blog Ventures 101

Here I come kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century.  I am blogging under a certain amount of duress, but nevertheless, here I am for all the world to read.

First, I am not at all convinced that the tactile experiences, of pencil, paper, perhaps even a writer's garret on a Sunday afternoon should be in the same conversation as a "blog." After all, rainy afternoons, cups of tea,  sometimes more adult beverages, maybe even canopies of oak leaves on tranquil lakesides--that's the stuff of writing for me. Not this hard chair, in front of this machine--working this brainchild of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates descended from the Apple IIe. Writing  is a visceral, hands-on kind of experience best done without the availability of delete buttons.  The permanence of pencil and paper goes way beyond the brief span of life given to operating systems bound to the speed of the latest chip and its megabyte capacity.  I may be a lone voice crying  in the technology wilderness,  but consider the power in the Word on paper compared to the word on a floppy disk.

Then there is the question of being followed.  How do  I "follow" somebody?  Do I want to be "followed"?  Seems a little akin to stalking don't you think?  If I don't choose the right settings am I inviting predators?  How do I know who is following me?  Might I not produce better quality writing if I didn"t have to keep looking over my shoulder?

  While I may succumb to this age of faceless facebooking,  and largely voiceless, communication;
             I am practicing to hear His voice--no texting or blogging required.