Today is the first day of the rest of my life.
Starting with a cliche, I promise to keep them to a minimum, although cliches are a nice way to relate to the rest of the community. Be too original, and your audience shrinks.
Starting with a cliche, I promise to keep them to a minimum, although cliches are a nice way to relate to the rest of the community. Be too original, and your audience shrinks.
In this blog, I plan to train as a columnist, writing on various topics of interest. Here's a non-cliched definition of 'topic of interest'.
Pieces of the macrocosm that accidentally or intentionally collide with pieces of the microcosm.
OK, here are some of my current interests:
- online communities (yeah! this is the world we live in)
- reading texts (60% still on hardcopy)
- the music realm (ranging from progressive rock through classical piano to chillout), watch this space
- SIRI (Sources, Images, References, Influences) - my newly-coined acronym for what some call 'cultural studies'.
- parenting (two kids, aged 5 and 1 1/2)
- God (yes, low priority, sorry God)
- sports (rock climbing in particular, planning to paraglide some time when I have time)
- kindness, truth and beauty (aka, ethics and philosophy)
WHOM MAY IT CONCERN? Or, who are the implied readers?
A small part of the world population who:
- have access to the internet
- can read English
- have interests at least marginally overlapping with mine
- know hazel offline
- like, or are, nuts
- my kids in 10-15 years' time, if blogs are still in fashion
But the number one addressee is of course, myself;)
I usually work a lot, but I fear I'll post regularly, as I tend to distract easily, and writing is one of my favorite distractions. So, cower!:)
1 comment:
Congratulations with your discovery of a new form of obsession :)
I wonder for how long you will remain your number 1 addressee... Doesn't happen very easy, once you get an audience with all its expectations and all those comments you just love :)
Cheers :) Eo.
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