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I blog for a number of reasons, but every little while I like to ask myself the question: “Helen, Why do you blog?” and see what my answer is this time. It’s sort of like interviewing myself (which I can do because it’s my blog).
I blog so that I have a place to showcase my poetry (and prose upon occasion). My current poetry project (begun January 1 this year) has grown to 42 poems. Some of these (about four or five) were published prior to 2006 but have not been included in either chapbook. Most are new. I am submitting the poems as I go along this time. So far about 16 have been published.
Yesterday was a big day. I had five poems accepted for publication, four from the Windows Toward the World project and one reprint. There’s a possibility that I might have a couple more, since one editor asked me to send some others. I have more poems (mostly from this project) submitted elsewhere. But I’ve not had poems in Ann Arbor Review or Flutter before and now they are forthcoming.
I also blog to post inspirational messages—messages that touch my heart. I am a Christian, but this is not an evangelistic blog. I post pieces that show the truth, as I am discovering it. Sometimes I post political opinions. I believe in separation of church and state but not separation of morality and political (social) opinion. I believe unconditional, non-judgmental love toward humankind would make this world more nearly the world God envisioned at creation and provided for at
Calvary. I believe in peace as the means whereby we can find lasting peace.
I blog because I enjoy the conversations with other bloggers left in comments, but I sometimes weary of saying the same thing time and time again. And yet, “there is nothing new under the sun”—just a rearrangement of molecules and ideas, hoping to glean a bit more of the truth. I hate arguing about words, rather than concepts. And it’s about the time that that’s what happening that I repeat the question, “Helen, why do you blog?” and I get a bit more of the answer.
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