By “furiously” I don’t mean “angrily.” I just mean “at a crazy fast frequency.”
I launched this blog on April 20. At first it was one post per day. Until today. I think this will be my fifth post today! I am one furious blogger, indeed.
(Or at least, it feels that way to me. I’m sure there are people out there who post ten times a day, every day, for years and years, and it’s good stuff every time. God bless ’em.)
So I’ve been thinking lately, not only about blogging anonymously (my previous post of a few minutes ago), but also about blogging a lot.
I’ve mentioned elsewhere that I do have this regrettable habit of overdoing it when I settle on something new and exciting. And I’m sure there’s some of that going on here.
But I’d like to think it’s more than that, it’s more than just the initial rush of enthusiasm that novices tend to feel. I do think it’s also partly a matter of having a lot of thoughts stored up over weeks and months (and maybe even years) that I’m eager to share, and lo and behold, now I’ve finally found a forum where I can share them. That’s part of it.
Another factor is that these recent days here in the spring of 2021 have been particularly fertile mind-ground thanks to the discoveries I’ve made about myself lately and the life changes they’ve led to. I suppose that’s why I’ve started blogging now, and not before now. I’ve always had a few things to say. Now it feels like I’ve got tons to say! It feels like my mind is working a little harder, spinning a little faster. No doubt reading more and listening to devotional literature when I walk in the morning has fed this. All good.
Another factor, as I mentioned in my previous post, is that I’ve already found this practice to be helpful for me personally. Just the challenge of having to gather my thoughts and then gather good words to express them (I hope they’re good, anyway) has been fruitful for me. It requires reflection. It leads to further thoughts that hadn’t occurred to me before. It even sanctions the life of the mind, and the literary enterprise. (How’s that for pretentious?! But it’s true.) I’d like to think I’ll be a better thinker, and a better writer, for having taken up this practice.
After this post about blogging, I think I can back away from the laptop for a while. Well, until tomorrow anyway. After this post I think I’ve covered the initial ground I wanted to cover about recent realizations and revolutions, and now I can turn with somewhat less inward urgency to a variety of thoughts that have occurred to me that I’d like to express, and to others that will come up afresh in the days to come.
No doubt the pace will slow. I sure hope it does. I can’t keep this up. It’s been a bit exhausting. But for now it’s been good to be furious.