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That lull in the lazy week between Christmas and New Year invites a somewhat indolent review about all sorts of things – including this blog’s “on again/off again” appearance. I’ve just finished messing with some WordPress themes to sharpen its look. I’m still faced with the question “What is it for?” I’ve used it now for a number of years, starting from the time blogging was the all-new rage for expression on the web through the time it was thought to have run its course.
In some ways, the blog has served as a journal, a more public expression for processing thoughts and ideas, ranging from the whimsical to the serious. This has been entirely separate from my private journaling. It was never meant to garner a wide readership, but I have been grateful to see comments, statistics and feedback that suggest my writing resonates with some.
In redesigning the theme, I’ve decided for now to keep it clear of categories, menus and widgets. I want to keep it as simple as possible and my mind jumps around too much to keep consistency with such things. So there will be a mix of rambling commentary, poetry, prayers and other such things, perhaps only identifiable by tags if I remember to apply them.
I have one or two books I’m drafting and this could well be a practice board for writing them. I used a gift voucher yesterday to buy some titles I thought might inspire my writing, so we’ll see how it goes.
I’ll complete this as has been my habit lately with a Collect and a Haiku. The idea of composing Collects arises from a recent workshop with Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama. A Collect is a summary expression offered to the Creator using a thematic titular form and that includes a petition and a thanksgiving. A Haiku is a strict 5/7/5 three-line verse that comments, sometimes ironically, on a thought, feeling or experience.
Collect
O Silent Communicator Who inspires our words, grant us the capacity to forge words of steel that heal and build, that the stories we share might bring illumination and understanding to the Grand Story with which You fill our being.
Haiku
Why do I write blogs
Casting words to the ether?
It makes sense to me!
Wondering Pilgrim 
Ramble on Rambling Rose, please Dennis, and when you must rave ….. rave on …… it’s a crazy feeling. If you ramble and rave you are in good company with Nat King Cole and Buddy Holly. A mix of foxtrot and rock n roll. And as John Denver sings “music paints pictures and often tells stories all of it magic and all of it true and all of the pictures and all of the stories all of the magic, the music is you.” You drop richness in your writing ….. keep on keeping on happy new my friend
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Thank you, dinlin47, for your encouragement. You’re quite the accomplished wordsmith yourself. Care to have a crack at https://wordpress.com/bloganuary/ ? I’ve just signed up.
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