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INTEGRAL means comprehensive, inclusive, balanced, not leaving anything out. -Ken Wilber-

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Wednesday, September 17, 2008

A Conversation of One

Wow, another year gone bye and now you're posting on this blog again.

Well, I've been busy.

Yeah, haven't we all, is that going to be your perennial excuse?

I guess so, I get swept up in the various torrents of life events, and they carry me far down stream from my intended course, and I need time to re-orient.

Have you "re-oriented" then?

Not really, I'm just catching one of those waves, the ones that let you relax a little and cruise without much distraction or effort. I'm sure surfers have a name for it. I'll have to ask my son. Speaking of my son he's blogging!!! You can catch his stories at wanderingdan.

Have you noticed that many of the blogs you used to frequent are down?

There are a few, but there are some regular diehards out there too. I made the shift to blogging from bulletin board conversations, because it was the mood of the times. I had some reservations , as bulletin boards allow for more interaction with others around a common topic, they lend themselves to being more conversational, but blogging is so isolated. People might read your blog, but there's the crux it's YOUR blog, so you have to be popular to actually draw people in to read you, and then they have to comment to enter a conversation. So I find surfing blogs and making comments is more interactive than posting my own. Maybe I'm expecting blogs to be more like topical bulletin boards, but they are not really. I've never had much interest in popularity, too much attention makes me crazy.

You're already there.