To paraphrase Hamlet\u2019s soliloquy, in the play by Shakespeare, but things are different today: I have become more aware of \u201cblogging,\u201d which is another way of publishing my random thoughts or writing. What ego! What conceit! to think that anyone out there would care in the least about \u201crandom thoughts,\u201d no matter how well-put.<\/p>\n
To \u201cblog\u201d—to think out loud. To perform a soliloquy, as for an audience. But there is no audience—or is there. I imagine a note in a bottle thrown into the ocean: \u201cIf you find this: Help!\u201d or \u201cI\u2019m on some island in the Pacific—I know not which one!\u201d or \u201cHello there! How are you today? You don\u2019t know me, but\u2026\u201d followed by a solicitation for a subscription for a magazine that has for many years been out of business. <\/p>\n
I\u2019m getting old! Oooollllddd! (Well, not THAT old!) But old enough to detach from striving. Yet I bubble, and I indulge in the fantasy that someone reads this. Plus I write, effortlessly—98.4%—sometimes I hesitate, trying to find the right word, or to spell it write. But I have realized that this writing is not a common skill. Enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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