Poop-poop!
on Feb 25 in General by DanGreg and I have been having an email conversation about the fact that it’s Pancake Day over here in the UK today. He sent me a link to one of my very first posts, written on Pancake Day 2006.
That post took me on a trail of “previous post” buttons until I came across my announcement of Kerry’s pregnancy with Evan.
And I started to get a little moist behind the eyes. What a big bloody wet lettuce.
But it reminded me why I should push past any blogging block that I might currently be going through. Because as vivid as my life is in my consciousness at the moment, in three or four years it will have faded into dim pastel colours, and in ten there will only be the bright highlights and the dark shadows left.
I’m very much a Mr Toad. I develop a huge overwhelming passions for something and allow it to over run my every waking hour. Until suddenly and without warning my interest wains and without even a backward glance I move onto the next thing.
Photography, power kites, walking, chickens, ukulele, role playing, writing, the accordion, model trains, DIY, blogging, cultural theory, gardening, breeding budgies, computer gaming, birdwatching, sci-fi, comics, filmmaking, amateur dramatics, juggling; the list of my one time or current enthusiasms is almost endless.
I like it like this. I like being a geeky equivalent of a renaissance man. I like knowing a little bit about a lot of things. If nothing else it means I can often find something to talk to my “punters” about (hello Rachel!). But I need to make sure that I protect the things that bring true value to my life from being expunged by the next big thing.
As usual, there isn’t a point to this. If anything it’s just a continuation of my previous whinging post, but this time from the more optimistic side of my brain. Sometimes it helps to write things down just to see what you actually think about a topic.
I promise that this will be the last of the navel gazing from me for a while. I’ll get right back on with subjecting you to pictures of my children and wild ramblings about my most recent craze (I’m guessing either windsurfing or 18th century art).
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You’ve got a good point. I can’t remember yesterday, much less last year.
Ed (zoesdad)s last blog post..Music to Move the Mass
Feeling it, feeling it.
I do concern myself that all this wonderment will be lost to the far reaches of my head void. Blogging can be part preservative, like a 21st century salt. That’s good to know.
And I am also an into-all-things-but-really-just-scratching-the-surface-before-moving-on kinda guy.
SingleParentDads last blog post..Morals For Minors
how about windsurfing while playing the uke? That would be awesome!
I’ve been terrible at blogging and even worse at blog reading for a couple of months. I think it’s just a winter lull though.
Speaking of Pancake Day, Clare just told me this morning that this is National Pancake Week over here.
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I think Arjan is on to something. Try combining a few of these things such as budgie juggling or filming model chickens. Talk about endless enthusiasms.
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Don’t underestimate yourself. You write beautifully and without artifice, and rest assured that every good writer goes through angsty moments of “block.” Although, my hubs being somewhat of a geeky Renaissance man himself, I can understand your self-annoyance over not sticking with something. Hey, a curious mind is better than a stagnant one, right?
Erins last blog post..Can you tell I’m not Catholic? Nor anchored in time, apparently.
I do the same flittering between obsessions.
Blogging is far and away my longest one.
Take your time, sir, it’ll come together.
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Just get on with it. Flippin heck Dan, stop your maudling and pull your finger out.
BTW I even gave you an award despite your lack of interest lately!
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As anyone reading my blog will know, it ain’t about the journalistic content. It ain’t about how many readers. It ain’t about anything much. It’s purely about (as Robbie Williams once put it) doing it for the kids.
And yes, OK, the fact I won’t remember any of it otherwise.
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Right back atcha! Thanks for the shout out!!!!
It’s a bit weird when you read a blog post that could have been written by yourself in a particularly lucid frame of mind.
“Sometimes it helps to write things down just to see what you actually think about a topic.”
Not sometimes, always.
Power kites?
But I know what you mean – though, personally I’m not terribly enthused about what my earlier posts reveal about me.
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Glad that’s settled.
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