Some thoughts from Liz on Blogging
November 04, 2006
Tags: Blogs, Bloggers, Blogging Era, Me Strauss
So my friend asked me, who I was and why I blog, and I wondered...
Myself? I am a person, a writer, a teacher, a mother, a wife, a wonderer, a thinker, a business person, a dancer, a creative soul, who know that stars are made of the same things as people and wishes people would shine as brightly as stars do. I am a dreamer who crawls deep inside to see to the edge of the universe. I hear music in words, think colors and pictures, find grace in the placement of ordinary things.My blog is my fiddle, my violin, my pencil, my crayons, my blank canvas on which to paint my ideas.
I get up at 4 in the morning turn on coffee and my computer. I get set for my day while they get ready for me. One by one I turn on programs to check what has happened since I left at midnight. It's like checking how my friends are, my objects of affection.
I start my writing for me -- I write for my writing blog. I choose a photo I choose a single thought. I still myself to listen for the music, language is music and it comes to me. I rehearse in my mind what I'm going to say. Sometimes I dance on my way to get coffee.
A close friend writes me an email at sunrise. We stop for a prayer and to greet the day. I get to see sailboats on Lake Michigan. I think that I am one lucky girl.
Then I blog for Successful Blog -- it's my dad's saloon, my country store. Usually I collect my ideas for the week on the weekend for that. So I know what I'm going to write, sometimes I've already started the piece. Sometimes I change my mind and do something totally different because the spirit has moved me. My fingers dance across the keys on those days.
Each day his it's purpose in my mind. Successful Blog is where I live. I often have three screen of it open at the same time, because I'm so involved in conversations and other things people are doing. I feel like I run a spaceship on Tuesday Nights when we have 20 + people talking at once in the comment box... I know everyone there by name and I smile when I write this. I love them.
Last I blog for LizStrauss.com. I call that one my brainy blog. I only visit there. No one wants to be the smartest one in the room for very long. Posts and ideas shorter and businesslike there.
In the end every word,every thought is about the people. Writing may seem individual, but it's not. It's interacting with people that brings us to write. it's communicating with them that makes readers. I CAN'T NOT WRITE.
I love the way ideas change when I blog them. I love that someone who reads something I write might see something I didn't realize was there. I love the conversation that takes a direction that I didn't expect. I love the learning,
I'm incredibly curious and people are so worth being curious about. It is through learning about them that I learn about me.
I blog therefore I am myself.
posted by Shirazi @ 8:26 AM,
13 Comments:
-
At 2:25 PM PKT,
Sidhusaaheb said...
-
"My blog is my fiddle, my violin, my pencil, my crayons, my blank canvas on which to paint my ideas."
I couldn't agree more!
:) -
At 8:56 PM PKT,
said...
-
Thank you. You must blog for the same reasons that I do. :)
-
At 9:06 PM PKT,
said...
-
What a find Shirazi Sahib. I liked her instantly. Very substantial.
Munir Khan -
At 10:47 AM PKT,
said...
-
I have read all her blog, well not all. Liz really seems to be living in computer. It is people like her that make blogsphere worthwhile and meaningful. She too has one more reader; me.
AJ -
At 4:45 PM PKT,
said...
-
Thank you, dear friend, Shirazi, for thinking my writing was worth sharing with your readers.
Thank you my friends for your kind words. I so enjoy writing. In my mind it is like singing, playing, and dancing at the very same. It delights me that you find something to enjoy about. Joy is wonderful word and we should have more of it!
With a smile,
Liz -
At 2:45 AM PKT,
Rose said...
-
I, too feel like blogging and writing are great ways to share, and communicate a variety of topics, interests and conversations.
-
At 4:46 PM PKT,
Alina said...
-
The conversation it entails was the first thing that attracted me to blogging. Being sure at times that you are writing for an audience made of friends, of kindered souls.
Yours was one of the best explanations I've seen for blogging. But tell me something: how can you manage sleeping only 4 hours each night? -
At 5:34 PM PKT,
said...
-
I have read her too. She is Guru. Sure guru!
~Attu~ -
At 10:49 PM PKT,
EXSENO said...
-
What a wonderful post.
-
At 3:33 AM PKT,
said...
-
Oh Alina, How do I tell you? I don't "manage" to sleep four hours a night. It's all I can do. I take a medication that wakes early. So I must do something. I look out my window some and then I write.
-
At 3:34 AM PKT,
said...
-
attu, guru? Really. no.
-
At 3:35 AM PKT,
said...
-
Thank you rose, and exseno.
Blogging is writing and dancing with my fingers. -
At 7:29 AM PKT,
jinghao said...
-
Such was the case when second life linden labs decided to pull the plug on several banks in the game. Some of these banks offered the system to buy lindens what real life banks would an interest rate. Some people get their secondlife money out of the banks says that Second Life depositors may have US$ 750,000 in real life money. The new rules state that only banks with proof of an applicable government registration statement or financial institution character will be able to operate with cheap linden in the game. Second Life has proven to be a popular place for companies to set up virtual shop where many players can exchange their favorite something with all kinds of linden dollars.
Links to this post:
What are blog(s) to Me?
This blog is a resource for my thoughts. More often, I blog form impressions and or generate ideas to see how they invoke reactions, to keep track of others’ work in the fields of my interests, or simply to rant or point out things that come to my attention.
Also, I use blogging as a platform to prune ideas. This is where I meet others. And “I am neither geek, nor nerd, I am not a hacker, a phreaker, a programmer or any variety of technoid dweeb.”
What are blog(s) to you?
Internet is a lonely place without Blogs; a fine art and economics. Blogs are different to different people. I usually ask blogger friends to share their views on what is a blog to them?
Contribute your thoughts on blogging in general. In particular, write how you blog? Why? How blogging matters in life and work? Answer these questions and more (add what you feel is important dimension for you) and share {sajshirazi(at)gmail.com} here.
Post a Comment
~ thanks for leaving your informed thoughts here ~