Blogs
I like reading blogs and I have three I am particularly fond of reading, for all different reasons. Even though I’ve never met any of these people in person, I think of them almost as friends because I read their thoughts on a wide range of things so regularly. Here they are in alphabetical order:
http://www.everydaystranger.net
I have been reading this blog for YEARS. Its author is a woman just slightly older than I am but so, so different from me in lots of ways. When I first started reading, she was a busy career woman longing for a baby, blogging often about her complex experiences of IVF. Being cheerfully childless myself, it was interesting to read about feelings and experiences I imagine I may never have. Now, though still a happening career woman, she is also a mother of gorgeous and hilarious twins. She travels, renovates, photographs and writes. Her readers are dwindling a bit, if comments are anything to go by, but I think she gets more interesting all the time.
http://www.meetingjonathanharris.org/
This is a much newer discovery of mine, written by a blogger who plans to take a photograph every day until he meets Jonathan Harris. Since he wants to, of course I hope he does, but I am worried he might then stop blogging. It’s a bit of a conundrum really. In the meantime, he has a lovely worldview that seems to me to create all sorts of possibilities for meanings and connections while staying absolutely in the realm of everyday reality. And he is a really good photographer.
http://resolved2worship.xanga.com
This is another blog I have been reading for donkeys years and another woman close to my age, only in this case slightly younger. I must admit that there is a measure of masochism in my interest in this blog. She is beautiful. And she is a mother of seven. And they all wear matching clothes. Including herself and her husband. (I don’t mean matching as in they all wear identical outfits, I mean their outfits all go together really beautifully.) Honestly, it’s all I can do most days to wear matching clothes myself. I get hints now and again that our politics are at odds on a few majorish points, but it’s easy to recognise goodness and a loving family and I really enjoy both her writing and her beautiful photography
