I always enjoy your writing also, and good friends are like good medicine. Glad you’re mine.

Also, you are welcome for the rss feed reader, but no they don’t show up in stats. Those are actual visits.

Technology is fascinating, eh?

Bart,

Huh? ;)

It’s axiomatic that the things we dream up to serve us, we eventually become enslaved to.

I’ve felt the same thing about blogging, my ownself, but I finally decided I blog because of me. I enjoy the writing. And I don’t write unless the bug, germ, spirit, whatever, bites me.

I quit the choir for the same (admittedly twisted) reason. I’d been teaching 2 Sunday Schools for some months and when I finally made it to worship, they were doing a number they’d prepared for the Christmas Cantata, and I sat out that Sunday and loved being in the congregation out there in a pew.

The little voice said “you can’t quit .. you’ve been there longer than anybody but the pianist .. what will people think ..”. God then convicted me that was precisely the wrong reason, and I’ve loved being “out there” ever since.

If you want to write, write. When you don’t feel like it, don’t. It needn’t be any more complicated than that. Besides, might a lot of those visits be from RSS readers, like mine? That’s the only way I ever go to a blog any more since someone (you, as I recall…) mentioned them. (If it was you, a big thanks.)

And oh, yes, I do enjoy your writing, or maybe I just enjoy hearing from a friend.

Both, actually.

Fascinatingly, this brings up another issue. My comment email system wasn’t working and I would not be notified of comments when they were left. I wasn’t participating well in discussion, which hurt discussion and also hurt my own interest.

Miraculously, it has fixed itself and your comment just appeared in my inbox.

Amazing.

Glad to hear that you’ve decided to stick with blogging. I’m not a very faithful writer at times either. There are long lapses of time that pass without a post, but then I’ll get inspired and write 2 or 3 in quick succession. It’s nice to have a venue for expressing one’s thoughts, even if they are sporadic and periodic. By the way, I had a meeting with Rodney Hammer this past Thursday at the associational office and he described his initial meeting with you in Tulsa after having read your blog for some time. I suspect you have a lot of faithful readers. Blessings.