A dozen years ago today, I started a post where i was going to (i think) review the holiday show we'd been to see a few days prior.
I have these past few years been working on a reclamation project for Roman Numeral J - finishing the "draft" posts that were never released to the public (quite a tragedy, i know). Generally, i've tried to recapture what i remember as the original intent of the post. (On occasion, these have been "important" RNJ contributions, really furthering the thinking and mission of this blog. Other times, including the John Waters one).
As i watch the 4th quarter of the 200th matchup of the Bears & Packers (Anthony Miller just scored to bring them within one score), i wonder for a moment what it's all about... Why write this? Why post it publicly?
My answers are manifold. I do still primarily consider myself a writer. And a thinker. Success in this capacity is nebulous for me. Or any capacity, really. I write because i enjoy it. I write because i value the ability to look back at how my thinking has changed over time. I write to commit myself to the thoughts i thought at a certain time. (Our era is one of self revisionist thinking - where we can pretend we always knew the things we now know. The era of truthiness is all around us).
Happy Christmas to all of y'all.
I have these past few years been working on a reclamation project for Roman Numeral J - finishing the "draft" posts that were never released to the public (quite a tragedy, i know). Generally, i've tried to recapture what i remember as the original intent of the post. (On occasion, these have been "important" RNJ contributions, really furthering the thinking and mission of this blog. Other times, including the John Waters one).As i watch the 4th quarter of the 200th matchup of the Bears & Packers (Anthony Miller just scored to bring them within one score), i wonder for a moment what it's all about... Why write this? Why post it publicly?
My answers are manifold. I do still primarily consider myself a writer. And a thinker. Success in this capacity is nebulous for me. Or any capacity, really. I write because i enjoy it. I write because i value the ability to look back at how my thinking has changed over time. I write to commit myself to the thoughts i thought at a certain time. (Our era is one of self revisionist thinking - where we can pretend we always knew the things we now know. The era of truthiness is all around us).
Happy Christmas to all of y'all.
