Since starting to blog, I have actually started following other blogs. This is my typical approach, jump in first then look around, a practice which goes against all the rules of entering the water I learned from growing up by the Pacific and training as a SCUBA diver. So, I'm now swimming around in the big blog ocean and have realized something significant: most blogs are in real time, like long Tweets with focus. But I don't do that. I can't. At least not right now, not ever, and probably not by tomorrow.
I need an extended mulling over period before I write, anywhere from a few days to a few decades, depending on what's being mulled. Probably why I like true stories about old dead things. Maybe it's linked to that brain issue I have with the truth. As input is coming in, I have no idea what it means, what I think about it, how I feel about it, or even what to say about it. I need time to filter, process, categorize, organize, and reflect on all the input. Sure, I can react if input is dangerous (a stampede of elephants), but for the rest I can't write about what I don't yet understand, because telling a story like I know how it goes when I don't feels like lying to me.
Maybe my blog should be called Things I Can Write About Without Feeling Like I'm Lying.
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