Comments on: Can blogging get in the way of living?

By: Keep the Memories, Get Rid of the Stuff | Life Nurturing Education

Keep the Memories, Get Rid of the Stuff | Life Nurturing Education — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:31:31 +0000

[...] Inspired by Dana’s post “Can blogging get in the way of living?” [...]

By: JJ Ross

JJ Ross — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:38:20 +0000

I don’t think of it as feeling distance, more like feeling the “power of story.”

By: Dana Hanley

Dana Hanley — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:06:23 +0000

See, it keeps you a little more distant from what’s going on, and allows you to take the part of the passive observer.

Actually, your comment reminds my of a recent post by suburbancorrespondent in which she says something quite similar.

By: kat

kat — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:17:12 +0000

But sometimes it is helpful to think of an event as a blog post, take yesterday for example. I spent much time in preparing for our new baby’s baptism only to have it ruined (it has to be reschelduled for next week) because my 4 year old vomited all over himself, his father, and the pew seconds before Mass started. The only thing that made me not break down and cry was thinking, “Well, this will make a great post!”

By: Jennifer in OR

Jennifer in OR — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:45:28 +0000

Wow, great question. YES, I think you can miss something by recording too much or viewing life as a potential blog post. If someone were living like that all the time, I’d say stop blogging. If I ever get to that point, I’ll stop blogging, too.

By: Dana

Dana — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:43:22 +0000

Yeah! Someone thinks my blog requires thought! I feel special, now.

By: Life On The Planet

Life On The Planet — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:19:37 +0000

I think that it has a lot to do with why you blog. While I enjoy comments and laughs provided by others who read it, bottom line is my blog is a way to communicate with friends and family – especially the out of the country sister.

For a blog like this one (you know, with an actual PURPOSE ), I can imagine that it would be a bit more thought and time consuming.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:30:43 +0000

Don’t know what that says about me, exactly. Is it possible to be too much in the now?

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:28:52 +0000

Writing — and photographing — helps me remember. Otherwise life for me tends to melt into a series of vague impressions. Things I have written about or photographed, however, become set into more concrete memories.

By: PeregrinJoe

PeregrinJoe — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:53:43 +0000

You raise a very interesting question in this post and it is one that I have wrestled with as well. I find myself doing the same thing: In the middle of what would normally be a profound moment to be experienced, I am thinking of how I would write it as a blog post.

But isn’t this the experience of all writers and other artists?

When a painter or a poet or a novelist or a blogger experiences something, they will find themselves thinking of how to translate or filter that experience into/through their art form. To me, it is a way that we can experience life more deeply not less.