New Blog — The Myriad Things

Well, after a year more or less on blogging hiatus—other than my updates here on WillBuckingham.com, I’ve decided to set up a new blog for myself. As many of you will know, I blogged over on thinkBuddha.org for getting on for six years before I wound up operations over there in the early part of 2011. I had begun to find the format of thinkBuddha.org a little confining, and in the end it didn’t quite reflect may various interests. So, thinkBuddha will still exist as a repository of articles, although I’ve closed down commenting there; and I’m ready to embark on a new project. So, ladies and gentlemen, I give to you The Myriad Things

The Myriad Things takes its name from the Chinese expression wanwu 萬物, literally ‘ten thousand things’: a name for all of the phenomena of existence. If this isn’t a broad enough mandate to blog about what I like, then I don’t know what will be. The broadness of the name means that I can post more or less what I like over there: from philosophy to stories to weird in-between things. I’m hoping that there will be a lot of weird in-between things.

The blog is now launched, so do head over and bookmark it and subscribe to the RSS feed, or whatever else you want to do. I’m hoping to blog at a fairly steady rate over there: not frenetically, but steadily. The Myriad Things will be my main place for more sustained writing—whether in fiction, philosophy or anything else, and I’ll continue to use the blog on WillBuckingham.com for news, snippets, bits and pieces, Snorghs, and other such activities.

The Myriad Things is also an experiment in working with WordPress instead of Textpattern. I love the flexibility of Textpattern, and will be continuing to use it over here; but for a blog, WordPress is quick and convenient, and easy to get up and running in next to no time.

I hope to see you over there.