Comments on: Losing purpose http://sodsbrood.com/pilgrim/2007/08/14/losing-purpose Comeday morm and, O, you're vine! Sendday's eve and, ah, you're vinegar! Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:32:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Scrivener http://sodsbrood.com/pilgrim/2007/08/14/losing-purpose/comment-page-1#comment-70146 Scrivener Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:03:02 +0000 http://sodsbrood.com/pilgrim/2007/08/14/losing-purpose#comment-70146 I hope you do rejuvenate an interest in posting here. I will miss your blog if it goes silent indefinitely. I often find myself fighting the urge to apologize for talking about myself when I write a personal, intimate post. I try to remind myself that it's simply anxiety about making myself vulnerable in that way. I hope you do rejuvenate an interest in posting here. I will miss your blog if it goes silent indefinitely. I often find myself fighting the urge to apologize for talking about myself when I write a personal, intimate post. I try to remind myself that it’s simply anxiety about making myself vulnerable in that way.

]]> By: Dawn http://sodsbrood.com/pilgrim/2007/08/14/losing-purpose/comment-page-1#comment-70140 Dawn Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:46:26 +0000 http://sodsbrood.com/pilgrim/2007/08/14/losing-purpose#comment-70140 I hope we have not seen the last of Pilgrim! I certainly enjoy your posts, even if I'm not a prompt respondent. This summer I feel like I've fallen off the blogging map myself, both writing and reading, though for me it's mostly a side effect of adjusting to two kids. Nothing worth writing about? That's all a matter of perspective. Sometimes it's even nice just to read about the minutae of every day life, so if you can write really well about a meal or the hot weather, I very well may enjoy it :) I hope we have not seen the last of Pilgrim! I certainly enjoy your posts, even if I’m not a prompt respondent. This summer I feel like I’ve fallen off the blogging map myself, both writing and reading, though for me it’s mostly a side effect of adjusting to two kids.

Nothing worth writing about? That’s all a matter of perspective. Sometimes it’s even nice just to read about the minutae of every day life, so if you can write really well about a meal or the hot weather, I very well may enjoy it :)

]]> By: Todd http://sodsbrood.com/pilgrim/2007/08/14/losing-purpose/comment-page-1#comment-70138 Todd Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:27:56 +0000 http://sodsbrood.com/pilgrim/2007/08/14/losing-purpose#comment-70138 Even without any purpose, Matt out writes me. I have a feeling we have not seen the last of the Pilgrim. And, of course, this place would be very different without you long and provocative posts. That's great news about your grandmother. Two years is so much better than two months. Even without any purpose, Matt out writes me. I have a feeling we have not seen the last of the Pilgrim. And, of course, this place would be very different without you long and provocative posts.

That’s great news about your grandmother. Two years is so much better than two months.

]]> By: Heather http://sodsbrood.com/pilgrim/2007/08/14/losing-purpose/comment-page-1#comment-70031 Heather Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:13:20 +0000 http://sodsbrood.com/pilgrim/2007/08/14/losing-purpose#comment-70031 Well, where else will you indulge the urge to just talk about you unless in this corner of cyberspace? In any case, I'm glad for the explanation on the posts. I've enjoyed you, and will continue to enjoy you if you do decide to keep this up. Well, where else will you indulge the urge to just talk about you unless in this corner of cyberspace?

In any case, I’m glad for the explanation on the posts. I’ve enjoyed you, and will continue to enjoy you if you do decide to keep this up.

]]> By: greypilgrim http://sodsbrood.com/pilgrim/2007/08/14/losing-purpose/comment-page-1#comment-69920 greypilgrim Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:06:06 +0000 http://sodsbrood.com/pilgrim/2007/08/14/losing-purpose#comment-69920 It's nice of you to say that, but I am not the only one who writes here at sodsbrood. The idea for sodsbrood was not even originally mine. It would continue without me. But I'm not really going anywhere, just admitting the fact that I have slowed down. My blog posts have become more intimate, less connected to the world outside. Less of interest to a wide range of people. Not that I ever had a large audience...but at least at one time, I directed my blog to a wider audience, even if they never found it. Honestly, I am not even sure I will be able to sustain the level of intimacy I've introduced in blog posts this past summer. I am slightly embarrassed at having talked so much about myself--sometimes I have felt my posts were solipsistic and whiny--but if I don't write about myself, and I don't write about the world "out there," then what is there left to write about? Nothing. It’s nice of you to say that, but I am not the only one who writes here at sodsbrood. The idea for sodsbrood was not even originally mine. It would continue without me.

But I’m not really going anywhere, just admitting the fact that I have slowed down. My blog posts have become more intimate, less connected to the world outside. Less of interest to a wide range of people. Not that I ever had a large audience…but at least at one time, I directed my blog to a wider audience, even if they never found it.

Honestly, I am not even sure I will be able to sustain the level of intimacy I’ve introduced in blog posts this past summer. I am slightly embarrassed at having talked so much about myself–sometimes I have felt my posts were solipsistic and whiny–but if I don’t write about myself, and I don’t write about the world “out there,” then what is there left to write about?

Nothing.

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