Blog Struggle

06; 3/18 Saturday, 12:55pm. Minnesota blue-sky sunny day, 45+ degrees; snow is melting.

Struggle, struggle, struggle; that's what life is all about. Granted, for the fortunate of us, there are plenty of opportunities for rest, relaxation and general appreciation of qualities that life also has to offer. But those opportunities are ever and always bracketed by struggle. And it's clear to me that "struggle" is a concept of relativity; my struggles in no way compare to the hardships millions of people have (had) to endure. My continuing, and nagging, struggle has to do with writing; writing what and where,or even at all. About as soon as I think I have it overcome and am ready to go, I encounter something like David Weinberger's commentary for NPR's All Things Considered yesterday, "Reading Blogs is a Time-Consuming Endeavor". Humorous and ironic, he points up many truths about the activity of blogging. Indeed, its become such a common activity, I shunned the use of the word "practice" for I believe that that word describes something more serious. Rather blogging has become an activity in the same sort of manner as jogging; almost anyone can do (and it seems, does), and style is 'whatever suites you'. Along this line, and Weinberger's larger point is that there are some 30 million blogs out there now, and many of them done with personal expectation. And why would mine be any different? (I think I have an answer for that, but I'm going to hold it til I can flesh-it-out in an essay) The irony in the piece is that Dvid Weinberger is a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Institute for Internet & Society, and himself a substantial blogger. Well, in any case this reflection today is (again) about my own struggle, and (again) my resolve to persist, if for no other reasons than that "I can" and "let's see what happens. And, yes, I will continue to look in on some blogs, perhaps for the very same reasons as I'll persist with my own.