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New Value in Blogging
"Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other." --Henry David Thoreau
I've referred to this quotation from Walden before, but I want to bring it up again in the context of blogging. If you've followed me for very much of my going-on four-year run, you know that I've had some good runs where I blogged every day. The best one was 216 days in 2005, but if you look over the calendar up in the corner for any month in the past year or so, you'll see quite a few patches of unblogged days.
Sometimes, it's just a busy day, but often I just don't feel like I have much to blog about. Trying to blog daily, there are times where I just haven't been thinking about anything particularly interesting, haven't read anything inspiring, don't have anything amusing to say. In other words, I don't always feel like I have acquired any new value for my readers.
Still, I'd like to be able to blog every day, not just to satisfy the handful of readers I have, but because I like having something to write about. Life feels somehow more full when each day includes something that I'm glad to have written.
Your thoughts are, as always, most welcome.