I would be deluded to think that almost anyone other than DC would have noticed that I have not blogged since July. Despite this fact or maybe perhaps, because of it, I am now ready to begin to write again. It would, of course, be futile to warn readers (i.e. myself and DC) that I am going to make some changes both in the style and content of what I chose to write about. I have realized over time that I was not writing for or about myself but had instead chosen to write to the imaginary audience I mistakenly thought would be looking at it. As with most things that are disingenuous the process becomes a bore and the results.....well the results speak for themselves.
In recognizing the above I have also become aware that for me this medium is basically about recording things that happen in my life from the mundane to the not so mundane. Writing in a public forum can easily become a fine line between disclosure and withholding with most blogs veering off considerably into either of those arena's The real trick, of course, is to be able to do both. One has to realize the secret diary like aspect of the writing with the voyeurism of posting those writings in a public forum
In these 'New Posts' I would like to see a little more honesty in the writing, more of what I find interesting and what I do not, and perhaps a little bit more about who I really am. Hopefully what will be missing will be the huge dollop of guilt that accompanied the previous posts. Guilt that the writing was badly done or not done often enough or technically sloppy, and of course the big daddy of them all the guilt that YOU the reader would be not be interested by any of the stuff I was somehow forcing YOU the reader to read!
It has taken me this long to work out that none of this is about you its about me!
