Withered stumps of time
Yeah, I know, it’s been a while…
There were reasons for inactivity. In June a couple of major family events, one happy, one less so, contrived to make a thorough mess of my life, a mess which took several months to sort out. Then a new professional possibility arose, one which would, if I’d followed it up, have meant not blogging, at least not in this form. I decided not to go that way, but it did make me think quite hard about what I am doing and why, and whether giving time to a blog was an appropriate part of that.
Anyway, I’m back, with a more intentional idea of what I want this space to be (pretty much what it was, only now by choice rather than by chance). This will continue to be a place for ideas I find interesting enough to record, but which are sufficiently minor, or undeveloped, or exploratory, that they could not find a more traditional publishing outlet. If anyone wants to read, and perhaps to reflect, then be welcome; if you want to help me develop or discard the ideas by posting comments, then be very welcome.
I intend to blog about weekly, but with the caveat that I am more interested in the quality of ideas than their frequency. In a week where I simply have nothing to say, I will not feel any compulsion to construct a post just to keep the counter ticking over.
Steve
great to have you back – you’ve been missed.
Yes, great to see you back.
Though I am curious, in the broadest sense, about what sort of job would require one not to blog.
Thanks both,
Fernando, not so much ‘not to blog’ as ‘not to blog like this’. I don’t want to say much (it was an approach in confidence, and should be honoured as such), but for an analogy, perhaps taking a job as a political journalist, or as an official within a political party would cause one to cease a blog that was a repository for odd political thoughts?
As others have said it is great to have you back blogging. I look forward to your undeveloped thoughts, which always look so much more coherent than my best ones.
They asked you to be the next Prime Minister didn’t they!
‘Analogy’, Jon – we did it in third year, remember?
Must have been asleep – what does Thomas Aquinas know anyway…
You were asked to present Blue Peter?
Archbishop of Canterbury