Where have all the bloggers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the bloggers gone?
Long time ago
I don’t know the other bloggers here, — not personally. But I bet I can guess where they’ve been the past several weeks. I bet that, like me, they’ve been keeping busy on many fronts. Working to make change, coping, resisting, and resisting and coping and working to make change… Busy, we’re very busy!
Why do we do it?
Why do we keep busy with this cause and that?
Byron said, ““The busy have no time for tears.”
Is that why we do it?
Do we stay busy in a frantic attempt to stave off reality? Are we afraid to stand still long enough to feel the pain — the pain of others, and our own? Sometimes, maybe.
But those of us who have been at this awhile and have stayed with it, somewhere along the line have learned that in order to continue to make change, in order to continue to cope and resist — that from time to time we must stop, get unbusy, …and feel the pain — let the tears flow.
I’ve come back here to do just that.
To stop awhile.
To get un-busy.
To read.
To ponder.
To listen.
To ponder.
To reconnect with what is…
the good, the bad and the ugly,
the successes and the failures.
To ponder.
To celebrate.
And, to shed tears.
And then, I’ll get busy again.
So it is.
Or so it seems to me.
[Wanting to give credit where credit is due, "Where have all the bloggers gone..." is an adaptation of the Pete Seeger song Where Have All the Flowers Gone]
Janette Watt is a proud-brazen-instigator, a value-driven political thinker, a social critic and an aspiring dissident writer. Her writing and her presentations are informed by her life experiences as an activist lawyer, an activist educator and active member of the human race. She is the owner/president of Watt Communications. Read other posts by Janette Watt.
