Blogs

No one blogs anymore and I can't really figure out why.  Did the advent of Facebook and then Twitter shorten everyone's attention spans?  Is it too hard to read more than a couple of sentences at a time?  I am guilty too.  I quit blogging some years back and I quit reading other people's blogs.  I realized over time that I'd pretty much quit reading books as well, something that has been a staple of my life and free time for almost all of my life.  How did that happen?  Even at my busiest times I would read, so it can't be because life got too busy.  Somewhere along the way, everyone's attention spans shortened.  That's what I think happened.  A collective case of ADHD.  Pitiful.  So I'd love to go back and see if the old bloggers I loved to read are still crafting their words in fun and sobering ways.  I'd love to get back to the matter of writing and reading myself.  It's perhaps a discipline like every other--you have to prioritize, make time, commit to it:  like exercising and proper sleep.  I stink at both of those as well.

Here's to new beginnings.
Again.

And hopefully some fresh successes.  I'm now off in search of old blogs and new ones I need to discover.