So a few posts ago, I asked for your thoughts on blogging and a lot of you replied to some extent, “It’s what you make it to be.”
Honestly, I don’t know what I want this blog “to be.” A journal? A forum for asking questions and getting people to think and share their opinions? Something to put my design/writing examples on? I don’t know.
So, I am going to be taking a hiatus from posting anything until I can answer that. Can a blog simply be? I’m sure it can. But I’m the kind of girl who lives and thrives in the black and whites, not the greys.
Thanks for reading. Always feel free to email me or comment in the meantime.
Perhaps letting go of part of that is part of what this blog may end up being.
I like all of your ideas mentioned above, but I know that a focus or niche makes sense. I am more of a sepia kind of guy, by the way.
Your header says, “An online expression of Anne Jackson.” So it should be just that – an online expression of a beautifully imperfect, creative woman who loves Jesus and is trying her best to make sense of life.
If your life was black and white, you wouldn’t have the impact you have on people. So why put your blog in a box?
Just my thoughts. :)
I like Fullers thoughts. I also know my blog is not consistant. Often I am sharing funny, cute or interesting things I have found online. Kind of the reporter in me coming out. But what I cherish is the opportunity to blog and think things through, outloud.
I’m going to jump on the Fuller-Wagon. Online “expression” of Anne Jackson. We aren’t the ones you can tell you what that means but don’t put the blog-in-a-box.
word …. please think fast – we’ll miss hearing your thoughts! :)
Sounds like God has you at a transition point. Often we begin to itch and not make sense to anyone but ourselves when that happens. I agree with the above thoughts, too, though. Happy hunting. Whether you come back to where you were, or arrive at someplace new. What I love about blogging is that it’s constantly moving and changing and a reflect of stress relief for where most of us really live…not a predetermined, predefined website nailing down something in particular. Sometimes I wish I were that “nailed down”…but the minute I find myself there, I long for what is spontaneous and new and refreshing! Go figure. Thanks for valuing our thoughts…I’ve never met another blog where so many people felt so free to just think out loud together, and yet the challenge you often give is so refreshing. Keep at it as God leads.
Well it seems as though I won’t be adding much that has not already been said. However, I can tell you I’ll miss seeing the flowerdust blog if you choose to take this puppy down. You are an excellent “blog-master” and I think that can be prooven by the variety of people that frequent your spot of the web.
That said Mrs. Jackson, I for one hope you find what it is you are looking for and hope than when you are there, you’ll think about letting your “techo friends” be privledged enough to know you got there safely.
All the best my friend,
The Mattchews
You can’t go….I do so enjoy reading what you have to say. If you must go, I hope it is not for long. God Bless and I hope the absence of “bladdy” is adjusting well.
as someone who not so long ago took a month-long hiatus from posting and really benefitted from it, i can say that it’s not such a bad thing…
i say focus first on being the annegirl God’s called you to be (perhaps being more concerned with who you are offline than with what you’re expressing here), and your blogging will follow. (loose paraphrase from matthew 6. :)) it seems like what you ‘ought to’ write would naturally (or supernaturally) well up from that.
i’m happy to have met you in person so i know there’s more to you than just what you express here!
that said, i do look forward to reading whatever it is you finally come up with. ;)
sometimes i think you take this whole blog thing a little too seriously. let it be.
Honestly. I don’t think you will ever answer that. Because as black and white as you think you are, I have only seen shades of grey from you. And that is a great thing. I see you as kinda like your banner. What the hell is that? I look at it and see a chaotic mess of beauty. The moment you discover what you want it to be, I feel Anne Jackson might not be happy with that shade of grey anymore. And that my friend, is what WE all love about this corner of the internet. A dusty silk flower.
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Yeah, it’s all about communicating with a body of people bigger than just your city, or your friends. I don’t honestly look for life changing writing or huge exposes on anyone’s site. That’s actually why I stopped reading Shlog. Too Serious all the time. just like a friend who has moved out of town, we just want to know what’s going on in your life!
I believe you’re linkage lead me to other great blogs I found. I also believe that blogs are a medium by which we the body continue to encourage and spread the truth of Christ. I think I have hit this marker in my blog as well, and I just had to come to the point where I didn’t care what it was about. I was just going to write about the truth God was revealing to me as well as Fantastic Fridays. We love you in Christ and Anne and hope to see you soon, shades of gray and all.