Have you ever taken a vacation from Facebook? Or your other social media addictions? You should. I did. And it made me realize just how much I had gotten the cart in front of the horse, so to speak.
Facebook allows me to connect with friends and family in ways I could not do otherwise. To see what’s going on in their lives. To communicate with them. And to share some of what was happening in my life with them. It also allowed me to share my interests, and views, that I thought might help make a difference in this world. To clarify, I’m not completely leaving Facebook. Just significantly reducing my time there.
So, this brings us to the “horse in front of the cart, so to speak,” part! Many folks who read this, who have been exposed to my long comments on Facebook, my many news articles I’ve passed on, and sometimes just long posts I’ve made about my thoughts at the time, will very much understand what I am fixing to say next. I tend to get long winded!
With my blog, I’ll probably continue to be long winded. But, unlike Facebook, maybe you can read my posts sort of like you read a book. Read for a while. Take a break. Come back and read if you want to hear more. And you can do it in an environment that is a lot less distractive, unlike Facebook. And, my “posts” will all be somewhere that even weeks down the road, you, or I, can still come back to them. They won’t be lost forever in the mass, almost unrecoverable, history of thousands of Facebook posts going into that deep, dark well, controlled by Facebook.
I plan to organize my posts in ways that readers can select from a list of blog topics. Or you can just browse. I’ll also have some pages that will display other interests I have. Such as, my photographs, maybe even some recipes that have meaning that carries beyond just taste. And of course, some sort of page, or tool, to continue carrying out my forever mission of trying to funnel people toward information I think will hopefully help us to learn, so we can make better decisions, and hopefully help make this “garden” a better place, to “dress it and to keep it,” in the words of the Jewish prophet, and writer, Moses.
So, here we go! The cart is leaving the barn. Hopefully, this time, the horse is in front of the cart!