Blogging Reflections: Part 2

Six (more) reflections about blogging every day for 180 days:

1. 1. Writing (and publishing it) is a gift to others, to the world.
   2. Like all gifts, it is offered joyfully or resentfully. The gift itself carries with it the spirit in which it is given.
   3. Writers are people. People change. Constantly. Writing, then, always bears a provisional message, “World, here I am today, and here are the words I have found; they may change, but for now, this is what I have to offer.” (I already disagree with a few things I said early in the first month of daily blogging. And that’s okay.)
   4. When I search for topics my audience might want to read, I find them, but they feel unnatural, even forced. When my material is the result of observation, listening closely to my environment, paying attention, it is more natural. The latter seems a much deeper well to draw from.
   5. Language gives ideas legitimacy, not because there’s something inherently more valuable about words than thoughts, but because the discipline of articulation is a big step to examining our own ideas critically. Getting it out of my head and onto “paper” allows me to see it from a different perspective. (I encourage you to try it.)
   6. And it invites others to examine the ideas too, which is to say that writing is always an open invitation for dialogue. It’s scary. And necessary.

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