My Random Musings On A Saturday Morn
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It’s the big Memorial Day Weekend boys and girls. What do we all have planned for these three days of fun? Are we going to the beach to see how much the water has warmed up since January? Are we staying home and cooking meat on the grill? MMMmmmmm. Meat.
Are we going to the pool and display our body fat to the world? Or are we going to go to bed and stay there for three days?
Being sick can be such a drag. I don’t appreciate enough the fact that I rarely stay in bed for more than a few hours to get some sleep. I mean if you are so sick you can’t even scrape yourself out of the bed and sit in front of a computer then you are REALLY NOT WELL.
I would have to be taking the BIG NAP in order for that to happen.
This morning I have been thinking about Lorelle again. I swore I wouldn’t go back to her blog because I was such an idiot the last time I was there. But I can’t stay away.
I did manage to refrain from leaving any comments however. So no damage done. Instead I am going to leave a comment here! Then if it turns out badly I can delete it!
Lorelle wrote a post about being a successful blogger and writing about things that interest lots of people. Makes sense, right? But then she says that lots of bloggers are writing about the same thing and that’s a drag. And clearly she is right again. Who wants to read the same thing over and over again?
But how do you write something very original AND something that lots of folks find interesting all the time? That’s pretty difficult it seems to me. And how do you know lots of folks will find it interesting when you are planning and writing it?
This is why I get crazy when I go over there. I end up with these contradictions and questions without answers. Maybe it’s clearer to you. Please let me know if you have the answer.
Anyway, it is a holiday weekend and Beth warned me several days ago that today (Saturday) needs to be a “cleaning day”. Because I invited a bunch of people over on Sunday (tomorrow). And so the house must be cleaned today. And the grass needs to be mowed.
But first the yard needs to be raked because of the freakin huge tree that likes to drop leaves all summer long. And these leaves can’t be ground up by the lawnmower she tells me. They can’t be mulched. They will just have to be picked up eventually in tiny little pieces if I run over them with the lawnmower.
I want so badly to have this tree cut down. But she refuses.
More frustration. Do I carry a lot of frustration around? Maybe so. Maybe i should let it all go and just breathe. In. Out. In. Out. In. Out. Repeat five thousand times.
Alright. Things are much better now. Time to go rake, mow, dust, vacuum, arrange,empty, pick up, water, spray, shop and do other stuff too.
Do many things but not write. Stay out of this chair.
This is not going to be easy.
Update: I think that the idea is for bloggers who don’t have a particular blog theme like living healthy lives or collecting stamps or sports for example is this. . .Try to bring out your uniqueness as an individual. Try to express something that just has “you” written all over it. And try to make “you” entertaining or at least interesting. Connect to the things that interest you and help others in any way you can.
That’s what I am trying to do and maybe I am not succeeding. But that is the goal. Does it meet Lorelle’s criteria?
If it works I believe it does. And if it does not you all will sail away and I will have had fun trying.
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Update : Here’s a nice post written about Lorelle that helps me focus on the actual person who is behind the blog. It even has a photo of her. Apparently those are hard to find. She must be a distant relative of my wife.
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David, sorry for taking so long to post over here. Been meaning to do just that. But, I am going full blast from early morning after my blog entry to about 6-7PM at night. I need to “retire” again, methinks.
Liked that last blurb about blogs without themes. I have no real theme. It’s mostly about my opinions, stories from childhood. In short, it’s mostly about me…warts and all. I try to express myself as succinctly as possible. I’m not sure people find me that “unique” (and I know that wasn’t your point) or interesting. But, I try to make things interesting. If nothing else, it’s entertainment for me. Hope you have a great Memorial Day weekend. Come back soon. BTW, some truly great photos, David. You really have talent.
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Thanks guy. Appreciate your message. Retirement often seems to me to be a lot busier than before. And blogging is the culprit there for sure.
David, I just LOVE your writing. I am dead serious when I say I was moved to tears one minute and chuckling the next. AND do you know WHAT I like about it? It is SO real that it I go away feeling like I know you. Your heart and humanness radiate SO strongly here that your writing is just a pure delight to read. It is honest and real and human. IT IS UNIQUELY YOU. When I was reading all the questions you were asking yourself about Lorelle’s Blogging do’s and don’ts and the thing that went through my mind and heart was….YOU be YOU and that is enough. It is amazing and real. And then I got to the bottom of the page and you wrote:
“Try to bring out your uniqueness as an individual. Try to express something that just has “you” written all over it. And try to make “you” entertaining or at least interesting. Connect to the things that interest you and help others in any way you can. That’s what I am trying to do and maybe I am not succeeding. But that is the goal. Does it meet Lorelle’s criteria?”
I like that. Because I am a writer and have just finished a book about part of my life in the Australian rainforest and that book wrote me, but now blogging is a bit different. I found myself asking all the same questions and was getting all tangled in my head until one day I said screw it. I am going to write from my heart. Then I wrote my post titled: “I’d rather…” And I put out who I really am. And since then I’ve written more what I want to right and I have no idea if anyone really likes it or not. I still grope in the dark like a blind woman, feeling my way, seeking my truest voice and sometimes it’s serious and other times it’s goofy. Sometimes it’s an old memory or story that happened in Oz or my last post was about my fear when I went to the rainforest. But I will say this: you have a rare and refreshing honesty and humanness that just touches me and makes ME feel more real, more human and more bold in expressing what is really me.
I finally realized, whether my blog is good or not, popular or not, I HAVE TO WRITE FROM MY HEART…whatever that voice is.
I thank you for this post; it’s a great job. I loved that whole list of all the things you and Beth had to do to get ready..I laughed….Oh gawd don’t you just hate it? LOL
Robin! You get it. And this will give you the enthusiasm and the motivation to continue to blog indefinitely. You have to be yourself. And people are very interested in you writing about yourself and your adventures. I am interested in reading all about your life and your blog is right here on my blogroll so that you will always be within reach. I am particularly interested in reading about what you do on a boring day. Because you don’t seem to have many of those. I have them all the time. No snakes. No alligators (thank God).
You are a real writer and I find it very encouraging that you like my writing. Thanks. I feel like you are my blogging twin.
Except that you are a lot braver in situations involving reptiles and probably lots of other creatures. I know they mean well and probably don’t want to eat me. But, still, I am uncomfortable in situations where I know that it is possible I COULD be eaten.
Everybody who wants and/or needs a shot of enthusiasm or encouragement should go see Robin. She is unique. She is an unbelievable gem in the blogging community.
I think that everyone possesses the ability to be unique in their blogs…but not everyone has the courage to take that step and say, I’m writing from the heart as I fell! It’s a question of self-confidence, I believe.
I think the best blogs are those that give the reader a glimpse of the blogger’s true personality, be it zany, dry, maverick, etc. That’s why I could easily read about the same subject again and again if it’s debated by confident bloggers – each post reveals something else I wouldn’t have considered.
Data points,
Barbara
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