Life is like a box of chocolates

In which Pooh has one too many jars of honey and gets mushy

I have not yet had the privilege to meet her, but I am loving mopsa these days

For some strange reason, (for which I have no good explanation) I find myself resonating with some of her posts in a such a visceral way that I end up blogging my butt off about what I find harmonic in what she's talking about.

It's not like I have trouble coming up with subjects of my own. It's not like I am stalking her or her blog.

(I bet she's glad to read that part)

It's not anything I can pinpoint. Except... she continuously keeps touching on things I find interesting. And, her writing is personable and touching and funny and gets me to thinking. And that thinking gets me to writing.
And for that I send you a heartfelt thanks mopsa.

While we are on the subject, I want to say a bit about some of my other blogging buds. I have only been "doin the blog thang" for 4 months as of today and I am so hooked it isn't funny. I started by going nuts and collecting bookmarks for about 1300 sites, (really). I thought they were worth looking at and keeping track of. I quickly figured out that if I looked in on each of them for 10 minutes 3 times a week, I would need 93 hours a week to do them all...uhhhhh THAT wasn't going to work very well...... I would have less of a life than I do now if I tried to keep track of them all.

So I started whittling...1050... And then hacking...975.... and slashing. After a couple of days, I got the number down to............ 800...(this is not going to work)...I finally decided that I needed to pare it down to only those places I really loved going to, places that moved me, or uniquely inspired me somehow. Using those criteria I have reduced my "must reads" to about a dozen places.

Some of these "must reads" are owned and written by people I considered friends before I started blogging. Some became friends after I started. Some I still don't know "in person", but I feel like I know them.

In fact, the reason I HAVE a blog is because my friend Jeremy set this one up for me.
His place is a mix of Geekville meets Spielberg meets Warhol and he is a great guy.
Irish-girl is someone I met through blogging. Her place is eclectic and warm and her poetry is amazing. She also turned me on to Poetry Slams...Although; in return I turned her on to Jeremy.... (Well, sort of...He and I went to a poetry slam together and he met her then.)

Bill, who's friendship means the world to me. His blog is a continuous source of music, media, humor, irreverence and a good veggie menu.

I marvel really, at how good these sites are. They range from geeky to loving, soul filled to political and everything in between. It is an amazing slice of passion, talent and life.

I started writing in a blog to get back in the habit of writing again, something I had stopped doing completely a few years ago after my divorce.
Well, I am writing again, and I am thrilled. But, as in most things in life, what you think you are going to get out of doing something, is rarely what you get. In my case, I wanted to get my writing back. What I got was far better and more important. I found new friends and by becoming more intimately acquinted with the friends I have, I have gained a much higher appreciation for how wonderful they truly are.

Well, this post has become a bit long winded. (Yeah, Yeah I know, which post of mine doesn't?) So I will sign off for now. I will return with the 2 stories inspired by recent mopsa posts, before the weekend is over.

Goodnight my friends.

Posted by Jack at May 03, 2003 02:10 AM