I’ve been trying to figure out why I missed Serendipity so much. It was less than a week, I felt like I was missing a body part. Why? Isn’t one site the same as another?
It turns out, no, they aren’t. Every blog has a unique flavor, a personality. They grow and change with whoever is minding it and in response to feedback from readers and followers. In other words, you. It took me almost two years to develop an active following for Serendipity. I know many of you as friends. I know stuff about your lives. I know what makes you laugh, grabs your interest. Over the almost 1500 posts I have put up on Serendipity, I tailored my writing to accommodate your interests … and mine. Finding that balance has been a dance, a complex two-step of trial and error.
I love making you laugh. I enjoy poking holes in “what everyone says.” Your comments and responses give me ideas and feed my muse — and she’s a hungry babe. And you feed my soul, answer my need to relate to a wider world. To be part of something more than me alone.
Writing a new blog is strange, like standing at a podium in a city I’ve never visited, knowing I have to give a speech to an audience of strangers. I know some of my old friends are out there, but I can’t see past the footlights. I’m not sure if this new group will like me. I’m not everyone’s cuppa tea.
The new people don’t know my history. Here I have a storyline which builds on itself. I don’t have to explain who I am. Here, I can build from the last story, link earlier stories, refer to things I’ve written about before. It’s the difference between comfortably chatting with an old friend and cultivating a new one who doesn’t know any of your personal history or those quirky twists and turns of your brain.
New acquaintances can easily misunderstand my peculiar brand of humor! It’s definitely odd. Weird, even.
Forgive me while I fumble a bit, trying to find my feet, but please check out Serendipity Redux. I don’t know what it will be yet. It hasn’t its own personality. How it grows — or fails to grow — will have a lot to do with you. The ground is slippery — new territory.
I didn’t intend to start over, though I knew I would have to, sooner or later because the volume of material being supported on Serendipity is perilously large. It’s exploding; there are a lot of warning glitches. The mechanics of Blogger are different than here at WordPress. It’s not a criticism of either platform: it’s merely different. It will be a while before it feels like home.
Until then, this is still my cyber home.
- Daily Prompt: Home Sweet Home (dailypost.wordpress.com)
- How Long Does It Take? (teepee12.com)
- Weekly Photo Challenge: THE HUE OF ME IS SCARLET (teepee12.com)
- What a Little Sunlight Can Do, Ooh, Ooh (teepee12.com)
- Weekly Photo Challenge: Infinite Boston (teepee12.com)
- The Dam (teepee12.com)
- Daily Prompt: Bookworms in a Bookish Home (teepee12.com)
- Daily Prompt: Bloggers, unplugged. (angloswiss-chronicles.com)
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It’s different. Not sure of the feel yet. Time will certainly tell which direction you need to go. Loved the photos and howled at the view from your window! Was that for real? Signed on as a follower and got a Welcome Back message…go figure! 😆
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Signing off for now…left you some comments on Blogger 🙂 Sleep tight! Hug Garry 😆
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Good night!
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Yeah. Up close and personal with a backhoe and they started work at 6AM. Including on Sunday. Garry couldn’t hear it. I don’t usually envy his deafness, but this once …
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