Close Up and Personal
Sparrow a Glance
I want to thank all of you who took time to comment in response to my Wandering last week.
If you weren’t around, basically, I asked for feedback both as to what you might like to see in the Wednesday Wanderings, and whether I should continue doing the Friday Fragments. I also asked about how important the photos were to you.
Based on the enthusiastic response to the Friday Fragments, I shall continue doing them. Although many of you expressed how much you liked when I specifically commented about a book, I don’t plan to increase the frequency of such comments. Writing a review column is a serious job, one I’m not interested in taking on. To do a good job writing reviews, one needs to offer more than one’s opinion. If you’re interested in a good review column, I suggest Alan Robson’s once a month “wot i red on my hols.”
In the Friday Fragments, I’ll make sure to remind you that I’d be happy to hear what you’re reading. Indeed, I am! I might not get to a specific book for a while, but I do keep a list of books that seem interesting.
I was happy to learn how many of you look forward to having the Wednesday Wanderings appear in your mail box or on some other aspect of your social media as a regular part of your weekly reading. Therefore, I’ll keep writing them.
However, I have one request. A short comment, even a couple of words, would help keep up my morale. I’m not asking you to comment every week or even every couple of weeks – although I deeply appreciate how people like James, FuturePastSite, Louis, Dawn, and King Ben’s Grandmother find something to say.
It’s hard “talking” into a void. I mean, I’ve taught college freshman English Composition at 8:00 a.m. Writing the Wednesday Wanderings is tougher because I can’t even see if people are awake! That’s what I meant when I said I’d like to have a “conversation.” My schedule doesn’t permit me to run on-line writers’ prompts or the like.
Moving on our discussion of the photos, Jim and I will probably do some experimenting. For one, he’s gotten a new lens that, once he gets the hang of it, will allow a greater range of images. However, I reserve the right to go back to a little picture tucked in the corner. In the end, text is the way I communicate best.
One thing several comments reminded me of was that I should feel free to return to topics that I talked about years ago. Ten years is a long time. While I’ve tried hard to not repeat myself more than is necessary, I think maybe I should loosen up.
In a week or so, Alan and I will chat a bit about the future of the Thursday Tangents. I appreciate those of you who took the time to express enthusiasm for our public conversations over these last seven years. We certainly won’t fall silent forever, but it’s time for us to rest our fingers. I promise to alert you in the Wednesday Wanderings when there will be a Thursday Tangent Special Feature.
On that note… Our final Thursday Tangent of the regular run goes up tomorrow. In it, I ask Alan a question that I really hope some of you will also weigh in on.
With that as a teaser, I’m off to run with the wolves! Tah!
