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The instructions of the meme are as follows if you're interested... 1) Go to Wikipedia 2) In the search box, type your birth month and day but not the year. 3) List three events that happened on your birthday 4) List two important birthdays and one death 5) One holiday or observance (if any) Here's mine - September 25th - pretty cool thing. Events: 1066 - The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Anglo-Saxon era. 1789 - The U.S. Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: the Congressional Apportionment Amendment, the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights. Only the Bill of Rights were ratified at the time, while the other two were proposed by James Madison but not ratified. In 1992, the Congressional Compensation Amendment was ratified as the 27th amendment to the Constitution. 1996 - The last of the Magdalen Asylums closes in Ireland. Two Births - One Death: 1764 - Fletcher Christian, English Bounty mutineer (d. 1793) 1930 - Shel Silverstein, American humorist and author (d. 1999) 1617 - Francisco Suarez, Spanish Jesuit theologian (b. 1548) Holidays/Observances: R.C. Saints - Saint Finbarr. :::
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permalink ::: e-mail me ::: June 20, 2008 >> 8:49 PM still blogging Well, I have this blog, you should check it out... Wait! You're here already. I used to have lots to say. I probably still do - maybe too much?? Maybe it's too - hell, I don't know. I'm sure my "blog voice" will come back soon enough. Sorry for all the old faithful readers till then. I'll try not to leave it so high and dry around here. Various Crap...
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permalink ::: e-mail me ::: May 19, 2008 >> 10:01 AM international readers Every now and then I'll check the location section of my blog stats. I find it fascinating that people from all over the world are reading what I'm writing. Of course I know some of them are 1 second "ooops, what's that?" and then they leave but not all. Check out this screen pic of part of the stat page I saw the other day - 9 countries represented, and some unusual ones. Any of you out there want to say hey?  Labels: blogging :::
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permalink ::: e-mail me ::: April 14, 2008 >> 9:36 PM and then there's... That's a silly title isn't it? Yes, it is. You're right. You have no idea what the post is about really so you don't know whether it'll be worth reading. Hell, I don't know yet if it'll be worth writing, so I feel your pain. On being a theo-blogger: I don't know what to say about it really. In my blogging history, I guess I've been considered a theological and ecclesiological thinker. People seem to like what I have to say about certain things. A few might think I'm a nut, but whatever, maybe they're right a little bit. I've appreciated being able to write things that connect with people over the years. I do actually plan to take a lot of these things, and some more, and publish them in the form of a book one day. That might be fun. Anyway, I want to keep doing this, but honestly, as a Catholic it's a little harder to know what to say. That might sound odd, with the rich, deep well that is the world of Catholic theology. I'm not, nor am I trying to be, some kind of official "Catholic theologian." I doubt I'll ever be one of those. I tend to skip around a little more in the mystical theology arena anyway. I guess that's a bit more "open." I doubt I'll be winning any Catholic blogger awards any time soon either. That's fine. I'll just be a blogger, who's a Christian, who's a Catholic - that'll work I reckon. On doing "ministry" in the Church: This one has got me stimied. I'm so stimied, uhh, I'm not even sure what to say. Only scattered phrases come to mind... Too much. Closed. Who has time for that? I have bills to pay. Why? Why not? Too long, too hard. I'm not quite sure what to do with myself. To a degree, I know my giftings and my potential. I know what I have done and, again - to a degree, what I can do (by His Grace in and through me). Don't get me wrong, being a Lector, a Cantor, or even a Eucharistic Minister is great. I've done all these things in the past and will probably end up doing one or more of them in the future - but this is not quite what I'm talking about. It'll be an interesting road. I know where part of it will lead already. That hasn't changed. That call, for me, is undeniable - a rural monastic community which acts as a place of contemplative formation, learning, and refreshing retreat - a different sort of monastery - I look forward to that. I guess that's it tonight. My life is weird right now. It feels very weird. I don't even know why or what that means altogether. I'm trying to move along with it, trying to cope, hopefully more than cope. Labels: blogging, catholic, personal :::
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permalink ::: e-mail me ::: March 12, 2008 >> 10:39 PM thoughts on wednesday I just thought, "I should blog, because I haven't in a bit" - and you know how that goes, when you say that, you never really have that much to say. So, I'll just say something then I guess. Some thoughts...
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permalink ::: e-mail me ::: February 12, 2008 >> 11:49 AM gracious and merciful is He > ice > lent Rend your hearts, not your garments,From the Prophet Joel this morning, telling us to deal primarily with the inside, with the heart. Don't just do external things that look like you're turning to God. That is of little use or good unless your heart is turning toward Him. And why, why should we return to the Lord - BECAUSE He is gracious and merciful - not because we are afraid - because of His Love. We don't have a God who is waiting to give us the smack-down. If you do, I'd take a look again at which God you are serving. Make sure that's not a mask on his face. As you fast and dicipline yourself during Lent, remember why you are doing this, why you can do this - "for gracious and merciful is he..." Ice storm last night/this morning. I wish it was all snow but oh well, this is what we got.   OK, I've decided one thing that would be good for me to try to do during Lent, as a dicipline, is to give up -- controversy. This is what that will look like: Not engaging in controversy in conversation, in blog posts, in comments. I will also avoid taking controversy into myself by reading controversial blogs, blog posts, comment threads, etc. I mean theological, ecclesiological, and political controversy. Now, not all controversy is inherently bad, but a lot of it is unhealthy - and for me, right now, it's not good at all. I've already found this a little difficult. I'm drawn toward controversy - aren't many of us? I'll see something in my feed-reader and I have to make myself not click to read it. So, I fast from controversy. Hopefully this fast will give me some rest. technorati tags > lent, ice, controversy Labels: blogging, lent, personal, photography :::
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permalink ::: e-mail me ::: January 25, 2008 >> 12:02 PM once upon a time... Once upon a time...
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permalink ::: e-mail me ::: January 04, 2008 >> 8:23 PM notable/significant posts of 2007 > 2 Here are a few more notable posts, at least as far as I'm concerned, from 2007.
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permalink ::: e-mail me ::: January 03, 2008 >> 10:03 AM notable/significant posts of 2007 Several bloggers have done this "top 5 of ????" blog posts thing for a while. I've tried to do it, but it's always very hard for me to whittle them down to 5. I tried the other day with my 2007 posts and ended up with a list of 23! I wasn't even nearly as prolific in posting last year, by a long shot. Anyway, here are a few, not really counting. I may post some more later too. First, it's a nice morning - sitting at the kitchen table after morning prayer with Liz, looking at light snow flurries out the window, drinking my coffee, and blogging of course. It's still quiet around here. I'll wake the younger kids soon to start their first day of school for 2008. Oh, and today is the feast of the The Most Holy Name of Jesus in the Roman calendar - that's for Pete.
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permalink ::: e-mail me ::: August 30, 2007 >> 11:34 PM law and love and spirit I've read some things lately and have done some thinking, so I thought maybe I would write something brief concerning these things. Since I stepped back into the Catholic Church there has been no small amount of turmoil in my life. All the turmoil isn't directly related to this move but all these things have conspired, it seems, to coincide and work together to drive me nuts. Well, little did they know, I was already a little nuts so there. Usually, though, people who are "a little nuts" are very smart as well - so there again. Anyway, back to what I was saying: lots of turmoil, not all directly because I went back to Catholicism, but some for sure. I told someone this recently, that listening to or reading popular Catholic apologists had nothing whatsoever to do really with my deciding to be Catholic again. Odd, huh? Not really, but in certain circles I think it seems odd to some people. I said something like this early on about this here, that I wasn't before, and I'm not now either a very conservative or a very liberal Catholic Christian. That makes me likely what some will call "lukewarm" or "moderate." I rather like to think of it as "balanced." There are certainly areas where I land on the very conservative end of the scale. And there are some areas in which I tend to be fairly liberal. I say fairly because I don't know that I ever lean to "very" liberal, whatever that's worth. So, herein lie some of my difficulties. As I've read here and there in the Catholic blogosphere, while there are definitely some good things out there, my experience has lead to finding a decent bit of negativity. Infighting seems common between "liberal" and "conservative" factions. For someone in my position - coming back in because of an inward leading from God entwined with the desire to be as connected as I can be to the ancient catholic faith - this is a bit disheartening. Just so much harshness. And I know that the Catholic blogs certainly don't have a monopoly on this kind of thing. Just check out some of the outer edges of the Reformed arena - Lordy Lordy. Any of this mess will make you want to turn your computer off and go walk through the woods to cleanse yourself. So, all that has done not one good thing in helping me feel right or good about the decision I have made. I've had to stop reading certain things - just not healthy. There are some pitfalls that one can get into inside the Catholic spiritual world, as there are everywhere. One of them is focusing too much on externals, on technicalities, correctness and the finer points of something like canon law or liturgical rubrics. Even if something like canon law is there for a good reason, to help guide and hold us in, it can get lost in a major way. It becomes an end in itself - the rubrics and the law become the point - and I have no problem saying that's not good. It can (can) become very Pharisaical in focus for some. When these lines or membranes that run through the actual fabric of what the Church is about become the point, where we spend all our energy, I believe we lose the ability to understand and live the meat of the matter. That's what happened with the Pharisees. The deep reality of what they were living in was amazing and rich and true, but they lost sight of that in their zealous focus on - membranes. I love this quote I ran across from one newly Episcopally ordained Joseph Ratzinger... All of us long for a pentecostal church: a church in which the Spirit rules, and not the letter; a church in which understanding breaks down the fences we erect against each other. We are impatient with a church which seems so unpentecostal, so unspiritual, so narrow and fearful.This is inside the heart of what I'm trying to say. That "spirit and not the letter" thing - that's huge in the heart of Christianity - in the center, the core. The more we focus on that, the Living Spirit, the Love of God, our Life in Christ, the more we get at the core. Now I have seen and experienced the deep, rich reality of this in the Catholic Church. That's what I came back to I think, to what I know is there, what is underneath the liturgy, that which transcends numbered laws, what is hinted at by the smell of incense and the flicker of candles but runs so much deeper. We are humans who are still broken and being drawn into a fullness of Life we really don't understand. We need structure and membranes to guide us, to keep us focusing in the right direction, on God, on the center. But that's what all this is for - not to be ends in themselves, but to channel us toward the Center of all things, toward Him and the fullness of the Life He created for us. Let's not get that confused. Well, I got into some things a little deeper than I had intended, which is typical, but oh well. Part of that may have been to encourage myself. This is the kind of thing that could run people right back out the other side of the Catholic harbor if they get hit by it too hard and in the wrong way. For me, recently anyway, of course my own move has been accompanied by several other big life changes. I'm just trying to hold on to the rope here it seems like sometimes. But I know, even if my grip fades and I slip off into the deep ocean... He is there. Pax vobiscum. technorati tags > catholicism, catholic blogs, canon law, rubrics, ratzinger quote, spirit and letter Labels: blogging, catholic, church, personal, reversion, spiritual formation :::
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permalink ::: e-mail me ::: July 19, 2007 >> 12:53 PM links > thoughts Maybe a part of this rest thing is not having a lot to say churning around. Still thinking though - always. I wanted to point to a couple of places you might want to check out...
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permalink ::: e-mail me ::: June 13, 2007 >> 9:32 AM the post from nowhere ...did you ever just start writing a blog post when you had idea what was going to come out from word to word? I know you haven't, Kyle, so I don't have to wonder about that. I've been sort of blocked up lately about what to say on here. I'm not one to quit blogging for a while in order to take a rest, so I guess I'll keep writing - something. I'm not sure what that is really, though, so stream-of-consciousness will have to do I suppose. What's in my head? Well, wouldn't you love to know. I'm not going to get totally into what all's going on in my huge cranium at the moment. Maybe that's part of why I'm having a hard time posting anything substantial. The substantial things I'm thinking about aren't really ready to be exposed at the moment. Patience children. Life has been busy lately too. Mostly in not too bad of a way. Just lots going on. Conor, my only son, plays baseball and he has lots of games and practice. I'm one of those parents who takes his son to practice and stays there to watch and see what's going on. We go to the games, one of which, last night, lasted until about 11:00pm, yowza. Katey, my oldest child/daughter, graduated from high school. I told you that. I've been fishing a little more lately. I told you that too. See, this is where it gets boring for most of the people who read my blog. You guys come, I'm taking an educated guess here, to read something a little deeper, spiritual reflections, thoughts on church and community and spiritual formation and monasticism. Not much of that going on recently. Sorry about that. It'll churn up again I'm sure. And this week is going by vvveeeeerrryyyy slloooooowwwllly - what's up with that. More later. Don't give up on me. Here are some pictures for you to look at in the mean time. Pax vobiscum. technorati tags > alan creech, blogging, life, family :::
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permalink ::: e-mail me ::: May 18, 2007 >> 7:21 PM jmt blogs  I got very excited today. Through some surfing around, I found that John Michael Talbot actually has a blog that he updates on a regular basis. This is very cool stuff. John has been used by God as my minstrel, if you will, for quite a few years. His music has helped me pray, meditate, go through dark nights of the soul, and has taught and encouraged me. Thanks, John, for being faithful and consistent for all this time.I've also been inspired by his vocation, his planting of a rural monastic community for married, single and celibate people, in Arkansas. Every time I think of that place and what they're doing, it gives me hope for my own future, the future of who knows how many people who will do this with us. Liz and I visited there once, on a trip we took for our 10th anniversary. We were in Eureka Springs and went to the Little Portion store there. One of the Sisters told us we should go up and pray evening prayer with them that night, she said, "I think John is there this week." So yeah, we went. We had a nice little time with them there. Another Sister (Raphael I believe, if I remember right) met us in the welcome center and gave us a whirlwind tour of the place before the bell rang. We sat with them in their choir just behind John and his wife Viola as he played the guitar for our chanting. It was a bit surreal for me, a very cool experience. I didn't talk to him at the time. I didn't really feel like bugging him. I'd love to have a sit-down with him sometime though and talk about what they're doing and what I want to do in the not-too-distant future. technorati tags > john michael talbot, monasticism Labels: blogging, monasticism :::
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permalink ::: e-mail me ::: May 07, 2007 >> 8:57 PM how the mighty have fallen Yeah, that title was a little funny there. This is in reference to my once upon a time blog-prowess which is, alas, seemingly no more. You see that I'm still writing here right? So obviously it's not going to cause me to quit blogging. I just think it's interesting to ponder why such a thing is the case - at least as far as hit-count is concerned. Kyle asked me this the other night - why did I think people didn't read or interact like they used to? I had and have a few answers I'm pretty confident about, so let's examine this shall we? Sure, why not. Tell me what you think, if you care to chime in. This exercise in itself should be interesting. Here are some thoughts...
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permalink ::: e-mail me ::: February 05, 2007 >> 7:21 PM photo > monasticism > new feeds  First, a photo for your enjoyment. Guess where? :^) And this is how it looked. I didn't doctor that photo up. It was a great day as I drove around the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry. Not really any rain that day - blue skies, as you can see. It was a gift.This is the West coast of Ireland near the Western most point in Europe. The Great Blasket Islands are to my left. I'll tell you about this scene here. This, I believe, is one of the places I cried a little bit. Not sure. That grass bit down at the bottom in the foreground is the edge of a cliff, probably higher than what you see in the distance there. Yeah, it just drops off right there where the grass ends. There was a pull off parking area adjacent to this overlook, so I pulled off, got out of the car and sat down on a hump of grass several feet back from the edge there and just sat there taking it in for a while. I breathed deeply and reminded myself that no, I was not dreaming. Amazing. Monasticism - You need to go read the quote Antony put up about the beginnings of monasticism. Very good stuff. It was confirming of a lot of my sense about the spirit of monastic reform - that it has always been just that - a reform movement. And not just for reform's sake, but to get to the heart of the Church, to recapture the transformative power of Christian community. One of these days. RSS Feeds - Here are a couple of long overdue feeds for you to subscribe to. Both these folks are good friends and have been blogging for a while, but have never had feeds. Well, we finally convinced them and they're all burned up with feeds now so subscribe away. Introducing Debi Warford (feed here) and Peter Matthews (feed here). technorati tags > photography, ireland, monasticism, church, rss feeds, debi warford, peter matthews Labels: blogging, ireland, monasticism, personal, photography :::
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permalink ::: e-mail me ::: January 12, 2007 >> 10:38 PM i don't know what to say > tired Really, I don't. I just cannot find the energy to write anything of substance. I'm just tired. Sometimes it's easier to enter a comment discussion on another blog, but I can't even dig up the energy to do that these days. I was talking to Bryan today and I think I'm with him. I'm kind of out of it and in need of a retreat. I have been extremely negligent of myself in this area in the last year, maybe two. This is bad. Don't have the time. Don't remember to make the appointment. Feel bad for leaving my family, even for 2 or 3 days. I feel guilty, I really do. Feel bad for NOT going on retreat because I'm supposed to be the spiritual father to a community of people and here I am being spiritually lame! What the hell is that? That should only be a little reason for doing something I guess. There are so many reasons why I need to make a priority out of doing regular retreats. I can't even go into all of it right now. I'm tired, remember? I'm seriously crispy around the edges. Hopefully I'll do something about it soon. technorati tags > blogging, alan creech, mental health, retreats Labels: blogging, personal, spiritual formation :::
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permalink ::: e-mail me ::: January 11, 2007 >> 4:35 PM i am special > snap I think I'm special. I'm on the SPA 100 list today - that means I use Snap Preview Anywhere (that cool little feature that snaps up a preview of the site in my links) and they linked to me in a list of 100 sites using their utility. Thanks guys! Anyway, I think that officially means I'm special - I'm pretty sure. Of course, you too can use Snap and no they didn't pay me to say that. It's just handy and easy so there you go. technorati tags > blogging, blogging tools, snap preview anywhere Labels: blogging :::
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permalink ::: e-mail me ::: January 05, 2007 >> 9:47 AM blogging along > labels, etc.  Since I switched to the new Blogger and got this labeling capability I've been almost obsessed with going back into the recesses of my archives and putting labels on as much as I can, whenever I get a chance.So, I've collected quite a few posts into categories that may be handy for anyone who wants to see what I've been going on about in particular areas. Some of them overlap but that's h ow it goes. Here are the most populated category labels, in order from the top - have fun... It's sort of like this has added a little new breath to my blogging world, which is cool. It helps to make me want to be more consistent in blogging. I want to do that. I think it's fruitful. Antony is talking about his blogging life today too. Check that out. Also, Andrew Jones (Peace be upon him), is giving us all some good blogging advice. technorati tags > blogging, blog posts, alan creech Labels: blogging :::
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permalink ::: e-mail me ::: January 01, 2007 >> 10:39 AM happy new year > blog labels First post of 2007, on the first day of 2007, pretty good huh? And, as you know, I have the new blogger (Jordon, I'm still praying for you), and yes, it has those cool label things. I always heard people griping about not having labels, switching to some other blog tool to get them or whatever. I'm not sure I'd switch to get them but they are pretty dang handy. I can see myself cranking out a bit of time, though, getting as many posts as I can labeled so they can be accessed in categories. All for you, my faithful reader. I'm nice like that. So, on the right sidebar just below the Google Ad deal is a list of the most significant labels, posting categories, I've created. Oh man, going back to work tomorrow after being off for more than a week. That's always interesting. Especially since I found myself falling back into my old habits of staying up pretty late and sleeping later most of the time. I got up a little earlier this morning but still, I think I may be hurtin' this week. Happy New Year to you all. God's Grace and Peace be with us. technorati tags > blogging, blog posts, alan creech, new year Labels: blogging :::
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permalink ::: e-mail me ::: December 30, 2006 >> 10:57 AM best blog posts in 2006 I was going to say top 5 but you'll see I'll sort of be cheating. I have at least one series in the list that I'll include as "one." It's hard for me to narrow down 5 out of so many. I have to start narrowing down my own criteria. So I guess these posts are ones that I think are "good" - i.e., meaningful, important in some way, and helpful. Here they are, each followed by a brief excerpt.
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permalink ::: e-mail me ::: December 29, 2006 >> 8:22 PM slightly new look The end of the year approaches and I thought I'd try on a little bit of a new look in the header of my blog. I was working on this a little while back and finally got it to a point where I liked it - so here we go. I kept an element of my old header on the right there. That's a photo I took at Gethsemani on St. Joseph's hill above the monastery. I've always loved that picture. The other imagery is also from photos I took - some recently in the old church where I entered the Kingdom, Holy Trinity in Harlan, Kentucky. I've always been drawn to the iconic image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, so now He watches over my blog space. May the new year of blogging be a good one. I've been trying to whittle down to my top 5 blog posts in 2006 - yeah, I've got it down to around 30 so far. I'll get there before the year's out hopefully. technorati tags > blogging, blog design, alan creech :::
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permalink ::: e-mail me ::: December 21, 2006 >> 8:31 PM new blogger > vacation Well, I was a little intimidated but I made the switch to the new blogger. It was something new, you know, never know what's going to happen. So this will be my first post in the new format. Wonder how this labels thing will work - hmmm. We shall see. Hopefully Jordon can follow suit soon. He seems to be a little distraught about it. Also, today started my week or so of vacation time over Christmas. I'm off until Jan. 2 and that's a good thing. I need to relax and calm down. I have a difficult time calming down sometimes. Hopefully I can do that during this time. I'm making some homemade tortillas tonight - having tacos and we didn't have any tortillas so I thought I'd make some. Good stuff. I tried a new buttermilk biscuit recipe this morning too and yes, it turned out very well. Thanks Alton Brown. If you're looking for your name somewhere tonight and come by here, I appreciate your help with breakfast today. technorati tags > blogging, new blogger, christmas vacation, cooking, tortillas, biscuits, alton brown Labels: blogging, cooking, vacation :::
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permalink ::: e-mail me ::: December 18, 2006 >> 1:08 PM blogging & popularity > some observations It's funny, this blogging thing. If you're at all familiar with the landscape, especially in Christian circles, you already know that. I've been at this thing for 5 or 6 years - something like that. Since before I knew they were called "blogs." When I first heard that word, by the way, I didn't like the sound of it. It's an ugly word. I tried to resist it but to no avail. The tide was too strong and I was swept away. So, I blog, and so do you. And so as we do this, we obviously want people to read what we're writing. I've said this before, and there's nothing really wrong with that. Certainly that desire can get carried away, as can any other desire that's basically fine in itself. So, maybe you say a few things that a few people find interesting, and they keep reading. They put you on their blogroll and perhaps even link to you in a post (a far superior nod). You might even get lucky and another blogger who already has a couple o' thousand people a day reading their musings, likes something you said and links to it! Aagghh! The tipping point ala Andrew Jones (seriously, you know that's how it works). Then a bunch of people start checking you out to see what the big-shot said was so cool, some of them hang around, some of them keep cruising. It's an interesting phenomenon. Then maybe you get sort of a following. That sounds weird doesn't it but that's what it amounts to. Especially if you're in the Christian blogosphere (that with which I am most familiar) and not just a journalistic blogger (one who primarily links to other posts or stories). Some people will like what you write, how you think about things, and how you say what you are saying - and so, they will become a regular reader. Most lurk (read without interaction), but there are a few who are so stimulated by your words that they come out of the dark land of lurkdome and comment. And most of the time that's a good thing. Of course every now and then you wish they wouldn't but oh well, such is the blogoscape (by the way I want full credit for that word if nobody else has used it yet - blogoscape, coined by Alan D. Creech, odd emerging church catholic monastic mystical blogger). Here's weird for you - I didn't plan on saying ANY of those first 3 paragraphs. I just wanted to make a little observational list about what might make one a popular blogger. Funny. So yeah, your "numbers" go up (by now you know you've installed that sitemeter code thing) and you find it fairly exciting that THAT many people actually make time to read your blog every day of their lives. It's cool and weird at the same time. Then maybe you try to do things to increase your traffic - for different reasons - could be you just like the attention or maybe you've also got Google ads and you want to make a little side money. There's also nothing wrong with that but I won't get into defending it here. Like I said, you've been tipped, linked, blogrolled all over, talked about both negatively and positively, etc, and your numbers go up. And then... ...something happens and they take a dive. For some reason it upsets you - you don't know why because it's not supposed to matter that much to you, but there you go, it does anyway. Course I've never gotten to the couple o' thousand a day point, not even close, but I'm on quite a few blogrolls out there for some reason. You'd think more people would regularly read this blog with all those links but the most it's ever been for any time has been probably 200 unique visitors a day. That's probably back when I was quite more the big mouth revolutionary than I tend to be now. I also blogged a lot more than I do now as well. I'm sure those are a couple of big factors. It's down probably to about 90 a day now. It's interesting, like, it doesn't "bother" me really, it's more like - hmm, wonder why that is, like sociologically or even particularly. Now, what might bother me are the possible reasons that people might drop out - like maybe I've changed in my thinking a bit over the last few years and they don't like that. Or maybe certain topics have risen to prominence in my circles (or former? circles) and I have chosen to stay mostly silent on them. That's kind of funky but whatever. So, down to any kind of a list - what might make one "popular" as a blogger in the Christian blogoscape?
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permalink ::: e-mail me ::: January 25, 2006 >> 1:23 PM multiple personalities > an interview Sort of. So, I've decided to do an interview of myself. That's kind of weird, but as long as I know it's weird, I suppose I'm alright. Alan Creech conducts an interview with pastor, abbot, blogger Alan Creech - awesome! Q. So, Alan, how long have you been blogging and why did you start doing this anyway? (and you look quite handsome today by the way) Well, oh, thanks - yeah, I think I started a blog (online journal) in 2001 maybe. I refused to call it a blog for a while. It just sounded so stupid. It's an ugly word. Anyway, I just wanted to put my thoughts and words "out there" to share and to connect with people who were thinking and talking about the same or similar things. Q. Cool - so you've been doing this for a while. How has that changed for you and how has it effected your life? - sorry that was like 2 or 3 questions in on |
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