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I have not been having too much time on my hands recently. That of course does not refer to this month or the last or even the one before that.
In the past couple of years my interests have diversified. I have taken up water colour painting and pencil drawing. An amateur still, mind you. I am also learning to play the electronic keyboard, and I recently have learned to play Top Of The World by Carpenters. Yay! If all this is not enough I have found myself a host of friends with whom I meet up regularly and have fun.
What this amounts to is that, combined with my home duties, reading, books, and (the next I say with my tongue firmly in my cheek!) playing FarmVille, I have been writing less, and …neglecting to read blog posts. Do I hear murmurs of disapproval? Yup, I deserve them.
Today I decided to rectify that. It’s a cool, dark and rainy day out here and I was in the mood for some reading. I opened the WordPress reader and instead of going straight to Anne’s page, or Ken’s (which I have started reading again only recently), I went down the list one by one.
And what did I find?
Most of them have moved on. They haven’t posted for years and years together. Some stopped in 2016, others in 2020, another in 2017, someone else hasn’t written a thing from 2012, 2009 even. I unsubscribed to them one by one, leaving only those who are still actively blogging, on my list, plus those by some jigri dost (close friends). Close friends are a different story. One must keep them close to the heart always, doesn’t matter they aren’t saying anything!
Anyway…
At the end of my exercise, I was left with only a handful of subscriptions. Blogging they say is a dying art. But whatever, there are still people around who practice this dying art. I will add new ones from them as and when I see ones I feel like subscribing to. My criterion for following blogs is that the writing speaks to me, keeps me entertained/amused, or gives out information in a non-boring way. I like to laugh and to learn. Any contenders?
So here’s to finding more of the kind I like 🙂 And also here’s to me writing and READING MORE BLOGS 😉
©️ Shail Mohan 2024
Shail's Nest 
Did you visit my blog? You would have been disappointed coz I haven’t written for a long time. Coincidentally I visited it today, and read one rather wistfully. Should start writing again.
Keep up the good work
Yes, I did. 🙂 Perhaps you are writing on paper if not on your blog? I am hoping so.
I am so pleased you still enjoy reading my natterings, Shail 🙂 🙂
I definitely do 🙂
I’m very pleased to get a mention! Thanks Shail. I’ve found a similar situation. Almost no one I used to read on the blog-o-sphere still writes – you’re one of the few! What’s also interesting through is that new people I follow are using the blog format more than ever as social media becomes so full of hate and misinformation. It’s more popular than ever – just the old ones we used to love so much have stopped. I suspect many of them will come back!
That’s good to know. Yes, most of the old ones I knew, have disappeared from the blog world. I’d definitely be glad to have some of them back.
I confess I haven’t read or written as much blogging as I used to, and following my original blog became harder when I changed the URL, and I took comments off most of my blogs when I had a deranged series of them from one particular visitor happen a few years back. But certainly, people are not blogging like they used to.
I feel so too, that people are not blogging as they used to. But I could be wrong. Thanks for stopping by.
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Keep writing. You never know who’s day you are brightening up. Blogging will become a niche art as AI takes over.