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 A tentative blog to test the temperature. |
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Ten years ago I was writing several blogs on various subjects - F1 motor racing, Music, Classic Cars, Great Romances and, most crushingly, a personal journal that included my thoughts on America, memories of England and Africa, opinion, humour, writing and anything else that occurred. It all became too much (I was attempting to update the journal every day) and I collapsed, exhausted and thoroughly disillusioned in the end. So this blog is indeed a Toe in the Water, a place to document my thoughts in and on WdC but with a determination not to get sucked into the blog whirlpool ever again. Here's hoping.     |
| As I Was Saying… Looking for something in the past, I noticed some longer posts that I'd written back in those days and I began to read them. That was fatal, of course. Reading one's own stuff at such a distance most often results in discovering them afresh, with no memory of ever having written such things. And some of them ain't bad. So I started copying a few into my trusty freeware Notepad. But now this terrible dilemma presents itself. Do I carry on digging, dusting off and recycling old thoughts as new? This would save a lot of hard work thinking in the present but therein lies the rub. This might be a devilish scheme by the brain to allow nostalgia to provide it with complete retirement. I might, indeed, stop thinking altogether. And that, of course, is the demon of old age. It might be better to avoid the past and keep slogging away into the future, as annoying as that may be. It's a conundrum that I shall have to contemplate for a while. In the meantime, however, I might just reprint a few of these old meanderings. Well, to be honest, I’ve already done a fair bit of that. But not too often, no, not too often… Word count: 208 |
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