...get tired of blogging and blogs and wonder if the time and effort is worth it, and if you do any good at all, and if the time could be better spent in reading a good book, or an even more worthwhile and unselfish activity?
I've got the low-dirty-livin-in-a bloggerland blues
And I'm runnin' out of things to say
I don't need no strife, just drop me in my life
I've got to feel the rhythm runnin' down in my shoes
With deep apologies to Ruthie Foster and her wonderful "Small Town Blues", which is an anthem for me.
Oh, Mimi, don't give up! Where would I go for my Down South news?
ReplyDeleteBTW, did you see the last thing on Roseann's FaceBook? Go look. It made me laugh out loud and praise the Lord all at once!
Susan, I did. Sue put me on to it. I loved it. I wrote a comment to the person who posted the picture and a beautiful sunset picture in her album, asking permission to use them, but I haven't heard back. I don't know what the protocol is at Facebook for using pictures of folks who are not friends.
ReplyDeleteI believe most bloggers get the blogger blues on occasion, especially those of us who post nearly everyday.
It usually doesn't stop me from using them, and I did put it up for a little while, but almost immediately removed it. I don't link to the photos, I just drag them off to my desktop and then attach them to a status update. That way I am not actually sending people to a non friend's page. I really don't know if I am breaking any rules. But I figure at my age, I won't worry too much. I always post Ava's pictures that way to avoid the link to my niece's whole string of photos.
ReplyDeleteIn spite of our throngs of adoring fans who hang on every word we type, we do have the option of not posting when we feel we have nothing to say. Not that I ever follow that option myself, mind you....
ReplyDeleteI send you a hug for the blues.
Susan, there may be different rules or customs for using a photo on Facebook that's already posted on Facebook and using the same photo in a blog post. I wouldn't do that without permission.
ReplyDeleteGrandmere --I heard an interview with Cornel West today. He likened the blues to deep love mixed with deep catastrophe. I loved that --remembering that the foundation of the blues is love....
ReplyDeleteI am sorry you have the blues. Does it help to know it's a full moon? Maybe just a good howl would help!
blessings to you on the advent of your blues...
I know what you mean Mimi. Me too.
ReplyDeletePablito, thank you for the hug. Having nothing to say, usually does not stop me either.
ReplyDeleteAnd it's Advent, usually my favorite season in the church year, and something is askew. I'm not feeling it.
Margaret, Cornel West's "deep love mixed with deep catostrophe" is a wonderful description of the blues.
I'd forgotten about the full moon. Tonight during my walk, I shall howl. What will the neighbors think?
DP, you too? It's the new swine flu!
Hang in there, this too shall pass... Everyone's got the big time blues... but this too shall pass.
ReplyDeleteMimi,
ReplyDeleteI prefer to call those nasty blues my melancholy times. Whatever the reason you have them, hang in there because it will pass.
I pray that in this time of melancholy you find peace and hope in our Lord, and that you can look forward to the joy of celebrating His coming among us. Amen.
Margaret, the moon is at 97%, still waxing. I'll need to wait until Wednesday to go out and howl.
ReplyDeleteCaminante, Ciss, I know that the blues will pass. I think that rather than trying to shake off the blues, it's sometimes better to just have a blue day, that a blue day may have a purpose. The hope is present, just not the feelings, and I well know that faith is not feelings, and feelings are not faith.
I like the term "blues", because I'm from New Orleans. Did I ever tell you that I was from New Orleans?
BTW, I saw Blues Brothers 2000 on Huludotcom this weekend. It was way over the top and not nearly as funny as the original Blues Brothers, but they made a trip down to the Bayou and ended the thing with a great bunch of music played by BBKing and a lot of others that was just right on!
ReplyDeleteCan you watch movies on your computer, Mimi?
Dear Mimi,
ReplyDeleteYou don´t have to be as CLEVER and WISE (as you really are) all the time...simply remember that you spoil us with your kind attention to detail and genuine interest in our lives...from time to time it´s good to feel like you ¨don´t have to go to press¨ with unreasonable deadlines, nap, frolic in the estuary (or whatever it is that you have there)...simply do as Paul suggested and take a rest...we understand (besides it won´t take very long to discover some new atrocity being committed that, thank be to God, we get to OPENLY chat/scream about)!
As a friend of mine sometimes say ¨it´s your own fault that so many people want to come to your parties¨...yep, same thing as your ongoing online hospitality and your ability to gather wonderful guests! You simply can´t help yourself.
I blog ONLY when I have something to say. Something that's not being said elsewhere - from my particular perspective. Otherwise I try to refrain. Often I've literally prayed about whether to blog or not. Or how to do so compassionately.
ReplyDeleteRight now I'm trying to take December for time to reflect. I find I need that a lot. If your writing doesn't come from some place deep inside, then it tends to grow stale.
Though I did just post short poem I wrote in Oct and put aside. But was amazed at the point I got to - when I ran across it. (But I hadn't posted anything to that particular blog for 2 weeks: Nothingness)
JMVHO here.
Grandmere, don't close down! My huge readership (all 5 of them) would be devastated! You're our best source for news and commentary from Louisiana and the South (no joke).
ReplyDeleteYou do a great pastoral service for a lot of people (Roseann in particular, and let's not forget Myron) with your blog.
Blog whenever you feel like it, whatever you feel like blogging. The readers can just catch up.
Susan, I expect that I can watch movies on my computer, but I don't know that I'd want to. I like a more comfy spot than my rolling desk chair. Also, I'd probably be gnashing my teeth over the download or whatever it takes to view them. I haven't even tried scanning with my new scanner-copier-printer yet. I have to be in the right mood to take on new learning tasks on my computer.
ReplyDeleteYou are all so SWEET and WONDERFUL. I'm not going to stop blogging, at least, I don't think I will. Perhaps it's simply laziness.
It's easy to say blog when you feel like it, but I view my blog as my bitch mistress, and that's my own doing and mine to undo. Perhaps my viewpoint needs to change.
Those of you who have met me know that I'm talkative, at times to a fault, and it follows that I'm not very likely to shut up online. For not having anything to say, I seem to be saying quite a lot.
Your "bitch mistress?" Oh my, Mimi! A woman of a certain age shouldn't be usin' such phrases!
ReplyDeleteHee Hee!
Dear Mimi,
ReplyDeleteDon't give up. As I told you at the Oyster Bar, yours is one of three blogs I check every day! I always find something either to cheer or challenge me.
I know you're feeling a little low today -- just remember how bright the sun looked a little while back with your "new eyes"! The sun will be back, and believe me, the moon, even "swollen as if with tears" (as Walt said on that beach so long ago) can also be a beauty....
Much love,
Tobias
oops... signed off too soon. Wanted to add that blogs can and do accomplish good in this world. Seeds are planted, and fruit will be gathered at harvest. Just remember that the reason the sowers went out "weeping, carrying the seed" was because they had to risk planting what they had if they were to get what they desired -- and they came home rejoicing with those sheaves!
ReplyDeleteI think blogging and blogs are good as they both keep me out of the pool halls.
ReplyDeleteMickey, thanks for the reminder. My blogging activities keep me from roaming the bars, which begins to appear unseemly in une femme d'un certain âge.
ReplyDeleteTobias, thanks to you, too, for the reminder of the seeds and the harvest, and often when we plant, we don't even know what is harvested.
And your kind words...
Mimi, if it's any comfort, I too am feeling a bit blue. It could be rain or it could be feeling cooped up with Izzie, but it will pass. You've been blogging a lot longer than I have and your loyal following (count me as one of that lot) would really miss you.
ReplyDeleteSure! Bloggers are putting their ideas and views, even if they are doing all links to news articles. So we are all capable of writer's block or simply being tired. And all too often, especially for the poets and essayists, we don't get a lot of feedback. It can be lonely. You at least have a fairly large audience.
ReplyDeleteBut it still is tiring. Might posting a bit less maybe that will reduce your feeling pressured?
I wonder if we could get 'bitch mistress' past Google for a blog title?
FWIW
jimB
Amelia, you, too? The weather here was dreary today. Maybe that's part of it.
ReplyDeleteJim, I could post less. I've tried to do that, but I seem to drift quickly back into my old ways.
Well, as long as we're keeping Mickey out of the pool halls it must be worthwhile.
ReplyDelete'I wonder if we could get 'bitch mistress' past Google for a blog title?'
ReplyDeleteWell, there's Bitch Ph.D. who has been blogging for a long time.
I expect that Bitch Mistress would get by. I know G Bitch from New Orleans. Despite her name, she's a lovely young woman.
ReplyDeleteIt's practically my only social outlet.
ReplyDeleteHuh, don't talk to ME about blogs no one reads....
ReplyDeleteBut Mimi, your voice is definitely one I check daily
And GMC would collapse with astonishment if I got 10 comments on a thread, let alone 30
((((Mark))))
ReplyDeleteI love having you here.
IT, thank you from my heart.
There now, you've all gone and done it. You've cheered me up.
I feel pretty
Oh so pretty
I feel pretty and witty and bright,
And I pitty any girl who isn't me tonight.
I feel charming
Oh so charming
It's alarming how charming I feel
And so pretty that I hardly can believe I'm real.
Oh, but Stephen Sondheim says that was a failed lyric. On account of you wouldn't expect such clever wordplay from Anita.
ReplyDeleteFrom you, of course, Mimi, I expect great cleverness.
Say, I was not a facebook "friend" of Roseann. I can't see anything on her page....
IT, I hope that everyone gets the heavy irony in my posting the failed lyrics, but the truth is that y'all did cheer me up.
ReplyDeleteThe picture is of Roseann's ashes sitting in the ground in the Hellmann's Mayonnaise jar. It's so like Roseann and her wonderful wit which stayed with her right up to the end. There's a lovely sunset picture next to the picture of the ashes. If the owner gives me permission, I will publish them.
Mimi (and IT and Jim and all of my other favourite bloggers)
ReplyDeleteI don't comment often but I always read. Sometimes there would be too much to say, sometimes a fleeting insight or a deeply moved soul cannot be expressed in a brief comment.
You are all so real, so honest, so full of integrity, so amazingly human and funny too. Thank you for blogging!
Thanks, Erika. I think I was just having a bad day. Enough is happening in the world and the church to give us bad days.
ReplyDeleteErika,
ReplyDeleteThanks. I know you are one of my loyal readers. The other one seems to like what I write too. ;-()
FWIW, I read IT. I suppose I should comment on the board more often.
FWIW
jimB