The weather here in Keene has turned chilly: what better time to take advantage of a long Veteran’s Day weekend and some cheap airfares to head south without my laptop to Anywhere But Here, USA. I’ll be back Monday night, so in the meantime have a great week & weekend, and be sure to take time to smell the flowers.
(If you haven’t already done so, click on over to Fred’s place and help welcome him home from his and Ann’s trip to Boston this past weekend. And while you’re clicking ’round the cyber-neighborhood, check out what Tim of The Where Project had to say about his breakfast with Fred. Seems that everyone’s happy to meet Fred: in a word, he’s priceless.)
Nov 13, 2004 at 8:17 pm
So. very. jealous.
Nov 16, 2004 at 7:31 am
Welcome back. I missed you. I think you do a lovely job of dancing on the border between public and private. It is not easy. I have been slapped down more than once for repeating some comment that I thought was insightful or funny, but a friend thought deserved more private contemplation. All I can do in such circumstances is humbly apologize and try to be more sensitive, but the truth is that we never really know what will be seen as intrusive. On the other side of the coin, there is a tempting exhibitionism in blogging–as if cyberspace is one place where we can be completely open. But if we are smart, we realize that just as there are some experiences we would not fully disclose even to our closest friend, we don’t want to spill them out all over the page, virtual or paper. We shape our experiences by how we share them. The art of what is on the page is one thing; the art work we make of our lives is another thing entirely.
Yow. Maybe I need to put that in my NaNo, which is all about stories and is suffering for lack of words, words, words.