Shift of scope

I have been debating how much to blog... poetry, personal stuff, insights, outsights....where to draw the line?


Seeing as there is not a lot of reader traffic here I may expand a bit in my blog meanderings, see what it feels like. I am not trying to get more readers, ultimately I couldn't care less whether anyone reads or not as I consider just turning this into a private blog rather than leaving it public anyway. Although there area few that I would like to still have read.


I'll see what happens first. I am testing a comfort zone here, that is my primary goal of blogging anything at all. The trading blog was mostly a sort of techincal layman's writing so it hardly counts, although it did introduce me to the various aspects of blogging.

Interesting note, I tried to google to force a first page result...just to see if people might end up here on a search, it doesn't look too likely as I couldn't get one until entering the blog title. So I am safe for the time being I suppose.


I find that I am paper journaling for my deepish stuff and I have been writing more poetry (that still sounds funny. As I type "poetry" my fingers still want to type "jottings"...go figure) than I intend in some electronic format here or there. I want to get back to using ink and paper. It seems more real that way. Strangely enough I find that I can squeeze time here and there to work on something online easier than opening my journal or finding a scrap of paper and some flat surface to write on. I'm not so sure that is a good thing.


Perhaps it is not good or bad as both methods produce a slightly different writing experience. I hadn't really noticed at first that I was writing poems...oh heck, jottings...as part of emails or at the end of a journal entry. They were becoming a part of a closing statement for the thought process of the moment. I have gone back and peeled away the writing to copy here, some anyway, and found that part of the email or note leading up was almost and integral part of the jotting.


Please don't get me wrong, I don't write about writing as if I know what I am doing or as if anything I write is any good on a technical or any other level. It speaks to me and I know that at least some of it has touched a few others, to me that is all that counts.


So, this is my first blog entry that starts my change of scope for my blogging, no jotting attached. Although I almost feel like I need to write something more about this.

BTW, I see that there is a new president today. That is about as much import I assign to the event as far as it afffecting my life...I could always be wrong though. I hesitate to name him as I am not looking for a bunch of hits from people looking for B.O. results today.



Jeff.