I came late to the twitter trend. I created a twitter account mostly so that I could stay as virtually connected as possible to all the California friends I left behind when I decided to spend the summer in Seattle. Twitter did not disappoint. The wit! The education! The rabbit hole that is the #tag. It's a beautiful thing.
However, I found myself frustrated by the 140 character limit to my tweets. As a law student, I've been trained (systematically and ruthlessly) to see every argument from both sides, so I understand the up-side to limiting posts to a certain number of characters. And yet I felt 140 characters or less stifled my creative nature. I could never say all that I wanted to say.
Hence, the impetus for this blog. I asked my youngest brother if he would read a blog published by Yours Truly. He told me that (1) he would definitely read my blog; and (2) he had always wanted to write a blog of his very own but had always been limited by the thought that no one would want to read what he had to say. Well Jeff, you can certainly be a guest contributor to this blog. I'd love to hear what you have to say. Even if you and I are the only readers, it might still be worth it to be able to write more than 140 characters when I have a thought I want to share.
So here's my promise to you, dear reader: each of these blog posts will have 141 characters or more. Otherwise, they would all be short and sweet tweets.
Well said Katie. I have read your first blog post and added your blog to my bookmarks :). My first contribution will be a thought rebuking my fear that no one would read what I had to say if I blogged: perhaps it doesn't matter if other people read our blog posts. I think with any art, be it blog posts or otherwise, the best motivation is a soul-deep urge that could care less about the response; we act because to not would be to say no to something fundamental within us. God created, and said it was good. He created us as creative beings and delights in our creativity.
ReplyDeleteOf course I hope that others will delight in our thoughts, but placing too much hope in the crowd seems to me the start of a road to crippling insecurity. The kind of insecurity that could keep me from writing at all. Thankfully, our good God is in the business of redeeming us from both this and every other kind of bondage. Maybe we could just muse because God has given us a universe to muse about, and when we do we feel God's pleasure.
-Jeff