Monday, December 31, 2007
hiatus
Time and tides are such that I find myself embarking upon something similar to a sabbatical - similar, but less formal, and of more questionable duration. Hence:
I will be absenting myself from virtual felicities for a while so that I might rediscover humanity in the fullness of worldly flesh and flatulence.
I've been spending more and more of my time online, it seems - posting in this blog almost daily, for almost 6 years now, almost 2000 posts - long enough to bring us into each other's lives, and make us seem somehow familiar, as if we know each other. So it's not easy for me to do anything that might strain that connection, might admit impediments, so to speak, to the marriage of minds as true as ours.
On the other hand, me-wise, I've been too much online, too much - posting to Junkyard Sports, Major Fun, this blog, writing articles in the Deep Fun site, reading other people's blogs, Googling, emailing, Twittering. So much that I seem to have to almost tear myself away, tear myself, away from the ever varied virtuality of it all, so that I can be with the people whose warm and loving hands can help me put my Humpty Dumpty self together again.
It's odd, how much of a challenge this is for me, to stop blogging and tweeting for even a week, after all this time. Our world is such that we must almost constantly remind each other that there is a possibility, a real possibility, that we can make things more fun. I, for one, have taken that as my personal mission. Fortunately for us all, I am not the only one. There's you, and then there are all those links to follow, to yet many more links, to others who share this mission. I've done what I could to connect us to them. We are not alone.
So, gentle reader, until we meet, play on, and take notes. Make fun happen wherever you can, with anyone whose life you touch. I'll be back, hopefully whole, with gifts, probably sooner than I think, to rejoin you, teletechnically, in the very merry merriment of it all.
from Bernie DeKoven, funsmith
I will be absenting myself from virtual felicities for a while so that I might rediscover humanity in the fullness of worldly flesh and flatulence.
I've been spending more and more of my time online, it seems - posting in this blog almost daily, for almost 6 years now, almost 2000 posts - long enough to bring us into each other's lives, and make us seem somehow familiar, as if we know each other. So it's not easy for me to do anything that might strain that connection, might admit impediments, so to speak, to the marriage of minds as true as ours.
On the other hand, me-wise, I've been too much online, too much - posting to Junkyard Sports, Major Fun, this blog, writing articles in the Deep Fun site, reading other people's blogs, Googling, emailing, Twittering. So much that I seem to have to almost tear myself away, tear myself, away from the ever varied virtuality of it all, so that I can be with the people whose warm and loving hands can help me put my Humpty Dumpty self together again.
It's odd, how much of a challenge this is for me, to stop blogging and tweeting for even a week, after all this time. Our world is such that we must almost constantly remind each other that there is a possibility, a real possibility, that we can make things more fun. I, for one, have taken that as my personal mission. Fortunately for us all, I am not the only one. There's you, and then there are all those links to follow, to yet many more links, to others who share this mission. I've done what I could to connect us to them. We are not alone.
So, gentle reader, until we meet, play on, and take notes. Make fun happen wherever you can, with anyone whose life you touch. I'll be back, hopefully whole, with gifts, probably sooner than I think, to rejoin you, teletechnically, in the very merry merriment of it all.
from Bernie DeKoven, funsmith
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