hmm, i was reading an interesting section of a book called "The courage to teach" - obviously a uni prescribed reading for my Psych class. What Parker Palmer says is that we so thoroughly separate inner truth from outer actions that we have lost touch with ourselves. i feel that blogging is that relief of "talking to myself". Palmer says that "we need to find every possible way to listen to that voice and take its counsel seriously, not only for the sake of our work but for the sake of our own health as well. If someone in the outer world is trying to tell us something important and we ignore his or her presence, the person either gives up and stops speaking or becomes more and more violent in attempting to get our attention." (32) I think that blogging has that power in my life - and its a good reason why i feel more happy when i do some self examination.
SO: no more viewing blogging as a waste of time, but rather as important self analysis to keep me sane!!
with all that deep thinking about blogging, i have now run out of time to actually do any blogging before i am late for church.
so till later!
carie
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That's a very interesting way to think about it.
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