Dear Friends:
Hope all of you are well and keeping up with your blogs. Thanks for your concern on my Facebook page regarding what on earth may have happened to me. It’s true that when a nameless, faceless person disappears from the interweb, it’s as if the person never was. Only the blog remains like the smile of the Cheshire cat.
But I am indeed alive and somewhat kicking!
It is perhaps a cliché to say that life is a journey. But would it be such a cliché to say that a blog is a journey too? My blog has accompanied my life in its travels through hills and valleys, nooks and corners, the bright sides and the dark sides like a little murmuring brook on the roadside that has spoken to me as well as you. A blog like this isn’t exactly true in that it hardly ever records facts and yet it isn’t exactly false in that it does hold up a very distant and distorted mirror to the lights and shades of life.
This blog has been a tiny home for me in a changing world that I’ve been able to come back to from time to time. It houses the mirrors that reflect the flame that lights this tiny space but must also show the darkness below the lamplight when it’s time to say nothing. Both sound and silence are necessary to meaningful speech and the last couple of weeks were just that here–silent.
Why? Just because.
Hope to meet you old and new readers more frequently here on this platform soon.
BW
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Hello. Very nice blog! Thank you for visiting and following my blog and I hope that you continue to enjoy the content. I look forward to becoming better acquainted with your work. 😉
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I noticed, and had to check to make sure I was still ‘following’ you! Like you, my blog has experienced periods of silence. Recently I was speaking with another blogger, and I commented that I will let a few months lapse in between posts, and was concerned the effect that had on my readers. Her words? “Then that will make your posts all the more valued.” Better to speak when you have something to say, than to flounder when you don’t have something to discuss.
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Hey, Bottled, good to see you again. I suppose the etiquette of this blog stuff is hard. Sometimes we just need a break! Glad you got one.
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So good to see you again. I’ve missed your posts but kind of understood that you needed a break. Well deserved, I should say. See you soon.
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Glad you are okay. If words aren’t there, we shouldn’t write. Sometimes space to live and gather thoughts is what we need 🙂
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Look forward to your writings, but I understand the absence also. Be good to yourself my dear.
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enjoy your time off! I go on breaks every now & then and come back with much enthusiasm 🙂
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It was nice to see you pop up in my emails, been wondering whaat happened to you
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Thanks for wondering . . .
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Hello! So glad to see you check in 🙂 We’ll be here when you’re ready.
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It’s good to hear from you. Take your time, we will be here when you are ready to return.
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I too, have been going through a period of “blog silence” and been asked repeatedly and with genuine concern, if I am “all right.” I have felt guilty and worried that I didn’t keep my part of the bargain, and disappointed in myself that after three consistent years I have allowed life to intervene and swallow up the part of my life which is so important. I make promises to myself and break them. And then feel ineffectual and worse. It helped to know that, for whatever reason, you too have been on a blog break. But especially your words that both sound and silence are necessary. Thank You.
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Enjoy the silence…We’ll leave the light on. ^_^
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I’m looking forward to hearing from you again–when you’re ready. Your period of silence is a good lesson for other bloggers to consider whether our current schedules are right for us.
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Thanks for the support.
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