Thoughts on Blogging

 

"Beautiful thoughts just crowd into your mind at times."... She said that everything had colour in her thought; the months of the year ran through all the tints of the spectrum, the days of the week were arrayed as Solomon in his glory, morning was golden, noon orange, evening crystal blue, and night violet. Every idea came to her mind robed in its own especial hue. Perhaps that was why her voice and words had such a charm, conveying to the listeners' perception such fine shadings of meaning and tint and music." - The Golden Road by Lucy Maud Montgomery

 

Beautiful thoughts. I wish that was all I ever had.  I wish my life was such that everything and every thought was always a beautiful hue, but it is not.  Although, I love this quote. Our thoughts take us to many different places and I think that is why people write blogs.  I thought my first blog I post should be, well, about blogging. I finally decided to try blogging after being inspired by my friend and former co-worker Debra. She started a blog the first of the year titled "Sit Down, Shut up & Listen" and I so enjoyed her thoughts and opinions. I felt I wanted to do something like this for a long time.  I found a lot of great quotes while doing some research on thoughts and blogging. I have sprinkled a few of them in here. My favorite was the one I chose to put under the title on this blog page. I have written four blogs so far and this one makes the fifth. My husband read them. I wanted to get his opinion....he says a couple of them are too "christian", (well duh!).....("Meditative … like the chirping of a solitary little bird" —Eudora Welty ), another he said would cause a big stir, ("Thoughts … whirling around on themselves, like the apocryphal snake seizing its own tail and then devouring itself "—Stanley Elkin) ...but I don't think so. The other one is me'up on my soap box', my own opinion and not necessarily the opinion of others, ("Thoughts … flowing in unison, like a mountain-stream and a lake-stream meeting, but not yet merging, in a single river" —George Santayana) ...anyway isn't that whole point of blogging? ...putting it all out there and getting feed back? Which is what I am hoping folks will do.

  Anyway, the writing of my thoughts, feelings and opinions was not the hard part. The setting up a blog page was the real challenge. Once I decide on something, like a template design, then changed my mind, (imagine that), I couldn't  figure out how to change it. Then it ask for a title for this Blog page. I couldn't come up with anything. I spent days and days trying to figure out what to call it. ( "Heavy on my mind, like a lump of soggy yeast dough, expanding, suffocating, blotting out all other thoughts" —Mignon F. Ballard ) Everything that came to mind just didn't seem to cover everything as a whole, until I finally decided on the title I have now: Clear Day. Then there is the problem of trying to get it to link so my facebook  friends can read it. I think maybe I have that one solved......let me know if you are reading this...("Thoughts … untidily stacked like dishes slanting (in) a full sink "—Lincoln Kirstein ) ...if not I may have to fix the slant....