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If you’ve been following this blog at all, you know that this has been a very busy time in my personal life.  My second little girl Emilia was born on the 30th of April, I have been doing some intensive DIY at the house we purchased in the beginning of April (and will be moving into at the end of this month), and just this week I’ve been helping my wife Melissa prepare for two exams she’ll be taking on Monday and Thursday.

All that is to say that keeping up with writing has been challenging.  Sometimes I sit down with a chapter of the Tao Te Ching or a passage from the Bible and find that I just can’t get my head clear enough to understand it.  I would also love to post more pictures of the exciting things going on during the week!

I have managed to build up a little group of readers out there in cyberspace, some whom I would never have met otherwise.  I hope you will be patient with me through this challenging time.  I won’t be silent over these next couple of weeks!  But it may not be as active as I would like until the dust settles in July.  Thanks for sticking with me!

13 June, 2010 | 1 comment

Blog-writing

One of the benefits of blog-writing, I am discovering, is that you are always writing in community.  Unlike a book, where people tend to exhaustively argue a complete, self-contained thesis from beginning to end, a good blog keeps things short and sweet. It is less concerned with creating a fortress of logic than with giving some food for thought that readers can quickly digest, comment on, and respond to in their own blogs.  Writing in that way is a really good discipline to learn, because it encourages efficiency and clarity, don’t you think?  Feel free to let me know how I’m doing!

I’m lucky enough to have time to look over my blog subscriptions in Google reader almost every day, and I usually find at least one or two things that keep me thinking for the rest of the day.  When I find something especially noteworthy, I may re-post it here for your benefit.  If you like what you read, you can click over to the authour’s site for some more!

Hooray for the blogosphere :)

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I just want to quickly direct your attention to the new ‘subscribe’ buttons on the top left of the blog.  The first is the usual feed link, which is great for people who read several blogs.  However, not everyone does that.  For the rest of us, there’s now a shiny new ‘subscribe by e-mail’ button right next to it!  This will send you a not-more-than-daily copy of any new posts.  Feel free to make use of it if that format suits you better.

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