I have not written anything in quite a while. I feel rusty and very much out of practice and yet the desire that I have to write is at this point possible greater than it has ever been. This space is now on wordpress.com and the settings are private. Therefore no one will be reading this except for me which will hopefully allow me to open up and actually experiment with my writing a little without worrying about what anyone thinks about it. Eventually I’d like to re-open dimly lit, but not until my writing is ready.
So, why bother with a blog at all? Why not just write in a journal or a Word doc? I’m vain, and aesthetics matter to me so when I re-read any of these entries I want there to be an aesthetic appeal. My handwriting is, sadly, horrendous and a basic Word doc or text doc is, in my mind, very unappealing. So, there it is – I’m writing for myself but I would like for it to me somewhat aesthetically appealing.
What am I going to write about? Not just whatever comes to mind. Instead I will try to focus my effort on writing that i can be proud of – writing that might be able to be published someday – in the Overture if no where else. The topics will be spiritual in nature, exhortative and reflective. I will try to use themes from OOC, for example the ‘pressing on to know the lord’ that is currently the church’s theme will be a major part of what I write. my goal is to write in such a way that I communicate the gospel of Jesus. I am a communicator and if I want to work toward doing that for a living, this is where I will start.
So, there you have it – now to start.
Oh, I will try to write at least 3 days per week.
I’m going to shutter this site for a while. I’ve been rethinking what I want to do with it and I have a few ideas I want to mess around with behind closed doors. I can’t bring myself to give up altogether on writing here, I’ve had the Dimly Lit site in some form or other since 2003 so I can’t just let it go! That being said, I don’t have the time or desire to just ramble – Facebook has taken over that function. So there it is, until I decide what I’m doing we’re going to maintenance mode…
What you gonna do when things go wrong?
What you gonna do when it all cracks up?
What you gonna do when the Love burns down?
What you gonna do when the flames go up?
Who is gonna come and turn the tide?
What’s it gonna take to make a dream survive?
Who’s got the touch to calm the storm inside?
Don’t say goodbye
Don’t say goodbye
In the final seconds who’s gonna save you?
Oh, Alive and Kicking
Stay until your love is, love is, Alive and Kicking
Oh, Alive and Kicking
Simple Minds
It’s been a while. You’d think I’d have all kinds of time to write considering the whole unemployment thing. Unfortunately, the sight of a blank page seems to send my mind screaming into the hills looking for a rock under which to crawl. But I am indeed alive and kicking.
So with my Last.fm station rotating through my random and eclectic musical tastes, I thought I’d sit and write. For inspiration I took a little trip all the way back to January 2005 when I started Dimly Lit on Blogger. Not much has changed since then – my first post was a brief explanation of the name, followed quickly a few posts later with a link to an article on how a drink a day can help keep the brain sharp. ADD fully displayed.
I think most of my posts have been brief snippets of thought or links to other sites I found interesting. Things that are now handled much better by Facebook and Twitter than a full-fledged blog. So why keep this site around? I think I keep it around because I have a persistent itch to write more than 140 characters and brief status updates about what I’m currently doing.
That seems to be what blogging is evolving into. While Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and any number of other micro blogging/social networking sites have come in and taken over the job of telling the world about your craving for chocolate flavored strawberries, blogging has stuck around for longer, (hopefully) more thought through, better reasoned articles.
So where does that leave me? The itch to write has not been scratched though I think about it almost every day. My laziness tends toward the ease of Facebook, but for some reason I can’t seem to pull the plug on this place. I’ll sleep on it and think about it some more. For now Dimly Lit is still alive and kicking.
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