The other day I didn't write a blog and I actually felt guilty. That's a strange feeling to have just because you didn't write a blog. So I started wondering why I do any blogging in the first place.
My website already pulled up on the first page of Google. My business was doing fine. So when I started blogging over a year ago, I had no idea what I was getting into. I had to learn. I had to meet people. I found people on the activerain blogsite that I really liked and hope to meet even more.
Looking back now I can see that being on this blog makes me more aware of everything. If I'm driving around town and cut through a cemetery I think, "I sure like these graves over here with no plastic faded flowers a lot better than those I just drove through with awful flowers on them. I wonder if my blogging friends would too. Snap a picture. It may be blog-fodder."
White driving home I saw these shoes hanging from the power line. In fact there were three pairs hanging from the power lines. I blogged about them and someone replied that it was a sign of drug dealing, possibly! I'd never heard of that. My blogging friends supplied information that could be valuable.
While going to convention I thought perhaps I should take a picture of my friends who were there with me and put on my blog. Look at my friend Larry clowning!
So blogging gives me the opportunity to communicate with friends across the nation. We can be silly, serious, educational, and sympathetic. It has made me learn more about html, spellcheck, writing style, humor, home inspections, loans, and so many other things. If I were to try to start a conversation at my office about a silly squirrel named Nutsy or the faded flowers in a cemetery they'd give me a strange look and walk away. On this blog, folks just chime in if they're in the mood and we have fun.
If they're not interested, they can turn away and I never know it.
If I want to search for information I can find people on this blog who are experts. I called a blogger named E Jeffrey Dolfinger the other day to ask him how to do REOTRANS. He was way up in New York but took the time to help me. If I want to rant and rave about business I can do so and I can listen to the other rants that may be similar and make me feel better about the whole thing.
In summary, I guess the blog is a great way to learn and make new friends and improve your internet power and perhaps the greatest of all is the friendship and awareness of life and our surroundings.
One final picture which I found in Anita's picture album and which I found so adorable that I've always wanted to use it on a blog is below. The expression is priceless. He is definitely blog fodder.
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