Happy New Year 2011.
Looking back on the past year I haven't blogged much. I guess I've been busy.
I have considered a few topics over the past months that could be blog-worthy. Economies of Scarcity and Abundance is one. I've gone through this a few different ways now. Probably should post something.
Other interests I need to spend more time with are Solar Power, Art, Music, Work and Life.
Where this blog fits in with all this is a pertinent question. Unlike normal blogs I don't have a cultivated audience, whether a small group of comment-writers or simply friends or complete strangers I point this way occasionally as a footnote to a conversation. The point is merely to write something when I feel like it. Completely self-indulgent.
But what if this year it's time for my occult self to emerge? Where does this blog-neglecting aspect of me belong in the total picture of my life? I think this question is best not answered, but considered in a public/private context. The private or usually-ignored part of a person is vital to a sane existence I think. Rest, Sleep, meditation, carnival, psychosis, in all aspects of personality there are socially adaptive goals and individual goals at odds with one another. Life of the organism and its mental companion take the form of good or ill health, balance. Beings beset with undue concerns over food or environment often mask a protective healing edifice behind which a fragile self gains strength.
For me, on the opposite side of that sphere, what of the public self drained of ambition? Having achieved all or nearly all the baseline life of ordinary achievement is supposed to hold, home, family, friends, a good job, and amusements to fill up the free time outside work, what is left to do but crumble inside. Doctors and health-concerned people warn of the need to let the medical intermediaries manage your relationship between life and death. Other more impractically inclined advocate other avenues toward the same destination.
So what about blogging? At this point this blog is only a gauge of my interest in itself. I have the vague feeling that a blog should be a focused treatment of a topic, e.g. Timmy's scenester blogs, Jon Taplin's political-citizen blog, or others. This one is just about my wandering interests, and so with just my input is pretty vague and infrequent. I haven't even bothered to post anything about solar energy or business management or quality or data visualization or scripting lately, though I could. I just work on those things, and the blog is no more than another storage box to shove the unfinished business of today's playing into.
Possibly to play again.
Looking back on the past year I haven't blogged much. I guess I've been busy.
I have considered a few topics over the past months that could be blog-worthy. Economies of Scarcity and Abundance is one. I've gone through this a few different ways now. Probably should post something.
Other interests I need to spend more time with are Solar Power, Art, Music, Work and Life.
Where this blog fits in with all this is a pertinent question. Unlike normal blogs I don't have a cultivated audience, whether a small group of comment-writers or simply friends or complete strangers I point this way occasionally as a footnote to a conversation. The point is merely to write something when I feel like it. Completely self-indulgent.
But what if this year it's time for my occult self to emerge? Where does this blog-neglecting aspect of me belong in the total picture of my life? I think this question is best not answered, but considered in a public/private context. The private or usually-ignored part of a person is vital to a sane existence I think. Rest, Sleep, meditation, carnival, psychosis, in all aspects of personality there are socially adaptive goals and individual goals at odds with one another. Life of the organism and its mental companion take the form of good or ill health, balance. Beings beset with undue concerns over food or environment often mask a protective healing edifice behind which a fragile self gains strength.
For me, on the opposite side of that sphere, what of the public self drained of ambition? Having achieved all or nearly all the baseline life of ordinary achievement is supposed to hold, home, family, friends, a good job, and amusements to fill up the free time outside work, what is left to do but crumble inside. Doctors and health-concerned people warn of the need to let the medical intermediaries manage your relationship between life and death. Other more impractically inclined advocate other avenues toward the same destination.
So what about blogging? At this point this blog is only a gauge of my interest in itself. I have the vague feeling that a blog should be a focused treatment of a topic, e.g. Timmy's scenester blogs, Jon Taplin's political-citizen blog, or others. This one is just about my wandering interests, and so with just my input is pretty vague and infrequent. I haven't even bothered to post anything about solar energy or business management or quality or data visualization or scripting lately, though I could. I just work on those things, and the blog is no more than another storage box to shove the unfinished business of today's playing into.
Possibly to play again.
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