In the past 24 hours I have received two unsolicited emails offering services “to improve your business over your competitors” and “to help you developing on your site because you can get so many new customers everyday”. Clearly ‘they’ didn’t read my posts!! I’m not a business nor do I think of my readers as customers. Silence, solitude, and simplicity mix like oil and water with competition.
Recently a reader asked me if I there could be a way she could get email notification when I posted. I looked into it and decided the answer was no. On a practical level, getting such an announcement started felt like a lot of work, and it would cost money. On a spiritual level, well, it wouldn’t not be in the spirit of how I envision this blog.
I like that I don’t know many of the folks who reads it; I like that readers find it randomly, and maybe keep returning, or maybe let it go. My posts are practical and straightforward, because that’s who I am. However, I like that the blog floats around in cyberspace and then mysteriously lands on someone’s desktop. I like that there is a whimsicalness to it all, like life and death.
Recently a reader asked me if I there could be a way she could get email notification when I posted. I looked into it and decided the answer was no. On a practical level, getting such an announcement started felt like a lot of work, and it would cost money. On a spiritual level, well, it wouldn’t not be in the spirit of how I envision this blog.
I like that I don’t know many of the folks who reads it; I like that readers find it randomly, and maybe keep returning, or maybe let it go. My posts are practical and straightforward, because that’s who I am. However, I like that the blog floats around in cyberspace and then mysteriously lands on someone’s desktop. I like that there is a whimsicalness to it all, like life and death.