Changing things up

So. I obviously haven't posted anything here in a good long time. There are several reasons for this. My computer was broken for the first part of the year, which limited my internet time to what I could squeeze out of my schedule at libraries. This left little time for blogging. Once my computer was fixed, I found that I was out of the habit of blogging.

Not only was I out of the habit, but I was intimidated by the commitment it takes to blog consistently and blog well. I didn't see a way to fit that into my already busy schedule. At the same time, I still see the value of blogging: as a way to stay in touch with friends, to share what I am learning, and to keep track of my own thoughts and interests.

I have spent quite a bit of time thinking about how I can make the blogging experience healthy in my life and helpful in yours. Here is my new plan: I'm going to shift most of my blogging over to notesfromfaraway@tumblr.com. For those who have never heard of this, Tumblr is sort of like blogging in short form (but it is emphatically way more than Twitter). For whatever reason, I feel less pressure to post well-developed, completely thought through posts. Instead, I'll just be posting whatever catches my attention that day: quotes, videos, half-formed thoughts. This will be helpful for me to keep track of my own thoughts. Will it be helpful for anyone else? Honestly? Who knows. It will at least be interesting, since it will be all the things that interest me. So if you share my interests, and/or want to keep track of them, check it out. I've already started posting over there.

If you know my interests are not your interests and this whole things sounds boring to you, no worries. I will still post the occasional developed, well-thought-through, devotional thoughts over here. But I will also post them (or at least link to them) on tumblr. So if you want everything, you only have to check one site. And if you don't want all the personal reflections and random thoughts, you don't need them. You can just hang out here.

Hopefully that makes sense, and this will work out better for me and for you.