Why I blog, part two: After yesterday's introspective postings about the purpose of blogging, I was reminded of a great and famous quote from William Faulker, which says a lot about my motivations for writing -- and perhaps also explains why so many of us are blogging these days:
Really the writer doesn't want success. ... He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he must pass through the wall of oblivion, and he wants to leave a scratch on that wall -- Kilroy was here -- that somebody a hundred, or a thousand years later will see.
Well put, Bill. Let that be the final word. For today, at least.
Blogrolling. I've done a bit of sprucing up of the old weblog this morning, and have added to the blogroll the following: Thinking Out Loud (a new blog; the author likes U2 and WOW Worship), Mark Byron (who apparently likes Abbott & Costello), Pam Kemp's newsblog, Web-Therapy (good stuff on prayer lately), amber Bach; deep::dirt; and cogito ergo blog.
Doves revisited. In my recent post about the Dove Awards, I failed to mention another blogger who posted about the awards. Daypop apparently doesn't catch every reference. So, let the record now stand corrected. Thanks Mark for bringing this to my attention.