Making the Move

I'll be making the move to WordPress in a short while. Please update your links and feed reader!

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In a poetic mood.

Whatever that means.

Sometimes the mood strikes me to write a poem. And sometimes I do, and it's awful, and sometimes I do, and it's "fair to middlin'" as my father would say, and sometimes it's just what I wanted. Sometimes I hit all those perfect authorial high notes -- lean, vivid, evocative, just the right combination of wit and punch.

I guess I have to realize that all my writing is like that -- that hitting "publish" on this blog is going to mean that I put a lot of things out there that I'm not satisfied with, that I go back and read months later and cringe at. I'm no "First-Draft" Lewis, and I never will be (alas?). And I realize that part of the discipline of being a writer is just continuing to hit "publish" week after week even when I don't have anything profound at the front of my mind. Because sometimes when I write a poem, it starts out as a sloppy ramble and ends up quite nicely summing up a thought filed away back in my brain. I reckon writing here won't be any different.

Hey, Techie Peeps,

Is there any way to find out WHO follows me on Google reader?  I know how many people there are (when you unsubscribe it tells you how many) but I'm dying to know who.  There must be some way.  Or is this the final frontier of anonymity in our social-networking Brave New World?

How Does She Do It?

I do a lot of my writing on the weekends and schedule the posts to publish automatically during the week.  And I'm trying to be more intentional about just writing reflectively without having to draw big important conclusions.  I get really anxious about making my writing perfect, and especially about impressing people with my insight, and that's stupid.  Whether or not y'all think I'm smart doesn't have any impact on my identity in Christ.  That realization has been a long time coming.

You Might Have Noticed...

... that my archives just grew by about 1000%. 

I imported all the material (with a few exceptions -- the food stuff and a few irrelevancies and housekeeping details) from It's A Blog over here to A Wilderness Life.  It's A Blog's days are numbered... it's the end of an era, y'all.  I blogged there for almost four years!

If you're new (or newish), have a dig around the old material if you like.  It'll be easier to search once I get my tags all set up.