it has finally seemed to me that this new medium might be someplace to be.
So, welcome. Is there anyone listening? there was a time when email was green and rare that the lines of words that glowed across the screen were a promise that at the other end of the machine there was another human presence. I am not nostalgic for unmediated presence; no one who spends their days studying the depth of time and the ways that humans always have deferred meaning through representation could be. But this will be the experiment here: is this medium public, a form of personal newsletter, an electronic broadsheet? or private, a diary without a key, open to anyone passing by?
I promise opinions, notes on travel, notes on books. The kind of things that we would say to each other face to face if we were characters in a particular kind of book or play.
Today here in northern California, where I once claimed "the streets are paved in gold", the rainy season has finally begun. This other form of seasons seems so foreign cast against the four seasons of the northeast, this oscillation between drought-striken grass full of flowers and rain-soaked leaves surrounded by green. It is a time for nostalgia, no matter what I claim, but perhaps also a time to connect. So welcome.
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Blogs are wonderful because they're always around when the readers have the time. E-mails can get pushed off the screen but incoming messages before we ever get to them and then we feel guilty for not responding sooner.
Blogs are more person than mass e-mails and you can write things you wouldn't necessarily email out to everyone. Folks who want to stay up to date can sign up for e-mail alerts when there is a new post.
As for me, I like the "Blogs I'm Following" function. I can log into my blog and I have a little feed of all the blogs I read and I can see who has a new post.
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