I Am So Impressed

I am so impressed with the new and improved looks of my blog, I could hardly wait to share it with you! My darling Edan is sleeping, Randy is off working, I am nursing a subsiding migraine and should be resting and yet... My enthusiasm cannot be contained. Seriously, if you could compare the old site to this one! (If your memory is like mine, however, I am grateful that you do not remember the lowliness from which my blog design/layout hath come!)

My new friend, author and gardener extraordinaire Becke Martin, inadvertently introduced me to this fantastic way to enhance my Blogger account. So, thanks to her and shabbyblogs.com it looks like a brand spankin' new website! And along the way, it helped that I learned a few things about how to use this site.

I just realized how bragadocious this may have seemed! It was a time-consuming and rather enjoyable effort, yes, but... that is not to say this is a top-notch blog, now, or anything. This is just to say... Hey, friends, family, maybe since you love me you will appreciate my efforts and maybe this format will be easier to read, and more enjoyable, and while you're at it, maybe more of you will actually FOLLOW ME (cuz, you know, more than 4 followers would be really, really sweet right now). And. Hmmmm.... I guess I am just writing this to brag on myself! <grin>

Seriously. This format should be easier to read and easier to comment on. AND I think this particular blog is going to focus on transplantation and organ donation awareness issues. Perhaps occasional other general things added in.

My other blog, The Treasure Trove has nearly 60 followers, I believe, over 350 hits, many more posts (because a lot of them I just repost from other interesting blogs), and a much wider range of topics. So if you're bored sometime and want to pick my brain but don't want to actually talk to me (or it's a bad time to do so) just check out The Treasure Trove. And PLEASE - leave me a comment there so I know you were thinking of me!

One main purpose of my blogs starting up again is an effort on my part to CONNECT with others. Here is my hand reaching out. Will you reach back?

In the beginning there was...

... This immediately begs the question, "In the beginning of what?" One might assume I am referring to the beginning of time. Or the beginning of my life. Or the beginning of some other significant event. Any number of things. I title this in such a manner that I might circumnavigate my thoughts and discern a cornerstone upon which to base this blog. (Don't you love the conflicting imagery of a circle and a square?) Or at least settle upon a point to start, even if it does not end up becoming the foundation.

I have read a few other blogs (see some of my favorites listed on my homepage) but do not want to model mine after theirs. While I do seek suggestions, ideas, thoughts, and perhaps even some general guidelines, what I look for most in this regard is the answer to "Why create this blog?" I could create it for professional reasons (many an archivist do), or for personal reasons (many friends do) but I wonder about a number of things:

1) Who wants to read it?
2) Who has time to read it?
3) Will it serve any purpose? and if so then
4) How will it serve anyone personally? and/or
5) How can it serve me professionally?
6) Do I have time to write? or
7) Is the potential purpose it serves enough reason to make time to write?

These are questions I hope that my friends and family can help me find the honest answers to. I know in this digital age this is the new journal. And perhaps for many, a great way to keep in touch with everyone at once (better even than facebook) but how personal is that, and how deep do those relationships maintain once we have reverted entirely to the digital age, with only minimal face-to-face or even voice-to-voice visits?


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