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Not only blogging, I take to writing like a turtle takes to water. I take it seriously, even when I’m funny. I learned it
all by myself, almost. In the mid-1950s, I began to teach myself to write, encouraged by the Reader’s Digest. I
began to blog earnestly in 2005, encouraged by my son Jomar. Thank God for the Digest and the children!)
learned to upload images to my blogs late last year and, a few weeks later, to link the source to it. Interestingly, I
called my first blogsite iNNOViSiON (set up 2002 at blogger.com), a pun on innovation, and now, 5 years later, I get
an error message when I click ‘View Log.’ Some passions last, some innovations don’t.
Not only blogging, I take to
writing like a turtle takes to
water. I take it seriously, even
when I’m funny. I learned it
all by myself, almost. In the
mid-1950s, I began to teach
myself to write, encouraged
by the Reader’s Digest. I
began to blog earnestly in
2005, encouraged by my son
Jomar. Thank God for the
Digest and the children!
From what I’ve seen and heard, the voice of the blogger is largely that
of a lone wolf crying in the wilderness. But I am undaunted. I do not
write just to count how many will read me afterwards; rather, I write
either because I have a new or different message, or I have an old
message that I know it would be of value to express in my own way.
I am Blogger, and my name is Legion. Ah, to think of the awesome
power the bloggers can exercise as one Village Voice if only they will!
I wrote this because I want them to realize that, because they haven’t
already. Let the Blogal Village Voice rise in symphony with the stars!
I propose that the Blogal Village Voice be the Global Village Voice.
To speak to Primates for Primates. To espouse Primate Change
to moderate Climate Change.
Now, what can we expect of the Blogal Village Voice? To speak of the
road not taken. To speak of the high road. To speak of faith, of reason,
of peace. Never mind if the Village Voice will be one crying in the
wilderness of the Internet.
(3) Primate, come take the road not taken.
So how will the Blogal Village Voice move the Global Village to act?
I now call on all bloggers: Remembering that we are primates ourselves (assuming Charles Darwin’s theory of
evolution is correct), let us blog to bring about primate change to bring about climate change. Be warned that it is
a lonely road; it is the road taken by one in a million primal bloggers.
Precisely! A few of us can make more of a difference, more of us can make small worlds of a difference. For
inspiration, I offer these verses from one of my favorite Yankees, John F Kennedy’s personal choice of poet
laureate, the earthy one of San Francisco (born 26 March 1874) and New England:
The Road Not Taken
By Robert Frost (1915)
Primate Change? Or Climate Change?