January 2011

Somewhere I read a blurb that intimated that people should turn their attention away from their favorite blogs and towards their favorite authors. While such advice seemed a genuinely positive gesture, something felt awkward. Maybe it was that I am a blogger and this notion threatened me somehow. For a day it was left at that. Then it came to me. Blogging’s insane gravity is not merely a dumbing down of the public. It is also drawing out the written creativity in those that have their own blogs. When I look out at the sea of blogs out there, what I am looking at is a sea of humanity looking to the written word to express themselves, to create, to share, and to write. In this way, the English language is getting a refresher course by way of society, and nothing could be a greater boon to the written word than to have a wave of home-based publishers daily revealing their worded wares. Merci.
Genruk