First of all, I’m a delight. Second, “I am unwritten.” (hat tip to Natasha Bedingfield)
“Creativity takes courage.” -Henri Matisse
In order to avoid the niche of just saying no to the niche, I’m gonna switch it up a bit and pull something from the archives…
My first “blog” post was in 2003 on a site called LiveJournal. This is what I wrote on August 23, 2003 – a few months after creating an account.
“This brings the level of ‘net community to a whole new level. As a closet geographic anthropologist (is that redundant?), I like to study people and their desire to form community. About 150 years ago, or so, you would join your community at church, festival, harvest time and so on. Now, in our world today, we join our community online.
But what about all the people that are not online (according to Census stats, very few people are online)? What do they do for community? Are we afraid to meet people face to face (f2f), or does the ‘net provide a “screen” for us to set up who we want to be?
I’ll ponder this some more and get back to you… 🙂“
In the words of David Byrne – “Same as it ever was.”
Not only is it humbling to see this, I’m reeling over the amount of time that was invested in making myself “popular” on that site. Y’all I could have written the great American novel, had 20 art shows, and a lot of other things instead of seeking something that was most likely not going to come my way.
This has given me quite a bit to ponder, and is gonna be great compost for tomorrow’s post. Today I’m off to engage with reality.
Much love,
~ KEU
Kim Upton 