…says the man. ” Just sit down and your desk and open a vein.”
He’s right. That’s the easy part. Getting someone to read the stuff, now that’s the trick.
That goes for blogging, too. What does it mean when I find that, during the month that I quit linking to outside stories, I get what is far and away the lowest number of visits to the blog since its inception? That’ll teach me to write poetry…
A nod to Kierkegaard and Walker Percy: existentialist tomfoolery, political satire, literary homage, word mongering, a year-round summer reading club, Dylanesque music bits, apocalyptic marianism, poetry, fiction, meta-porn, a prisoner work-release program.
Søren Kierkegaard
Walker Percy
Bob Dylan
Literature & History
Letters from an American
Beau of the Fifth Column
This American Life
The Writer’s Almanac
San Diego Reader
The Stranger
The Inlander
Adoremus
Charlotte was Both
The Onion
From Empty Hands
Ellen Finnigan
America
Commonweal
First Things
National Review
The New Republic
All Manner of Thing
Gerasene Writers Conference
Scrutinies
DarwinCatholic
Catholic and Enjoying It
Bad Catholic
Universalis
Is My Phylactery Showing?
Quotidian Quintilian
En pocas palabras
William Wilson, Guitarist Extraordinaire
Signposts in a Strange Land
Ben Hatke
Daniel Mitsui
Dappled Things
The Fine Delight
Gene Luen Yang
Wiseblood Books
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Hey! Some of us are still here!
There are really only a few sites I regularly visit that contain lots of links to outside stories – otherwise, I like reading slices of other people’s lives.
Plus, your links are usually disturbing. 😉
Bless you, ATP.
I am attributing it to people giving up internet and blogs for Lent, personally……………
I’m still visiting. Some of the comments a while back got me thinking of who I shared my Swimming with Scapulars book with as it seems like others mentioned passing it on.
Anyone else want to join in?
I shared mine with a friend who gave it to her friend who was very angry about using NFP and becoming pregnant with her third child. The whole book is great, but there was a certain part that I thought might really get through to her.
i read it(SWS) just before having sterilization reversal surgery. i gave it to my husband, (who begrudgingly agreed to the surgery), i think the book helped him see that faith in the Catholic tradition is not always easy and everyone has doubts. it’s the persevering that is rewarded.(i think)
Um, wow. Thanks, 5x and Anon.
Matthew know this already, but I fancy sharing too –
I read SWS after finding this blog, and had to order it specially from the US. I thought it was so good that I lent it to by boyfriend, who does not normally read ‘religious’ books at all, though he is a cradle Catholic. He was profoundly moved by the book, and after reading it prayed for the Holy Spirit to reignite his passion and faith. Since then, we have both been inspired to practise our faith more actively – saying Grace, praying together – little things that add up. And now we are teaching confirmation candidates at his home church! Not bad for one little book!
Love,
Emily (London, England)
Matthew,
See – with this kind of testimony – that will teach you to feel sorry for yourself…
Tsk. Tsk. Tsk.
Get out of your head.
Get into Wisconsin.
…or at least write me a letter.
JOB
Ok, now I feel guilty! But I’ve been busy with school.
Second day at work today and I noticed your book on the shelf 🙂
OK, now *I* feel guilty – I shouldn’t have whined. I was indulging in a moment of bitterness about book two’s fate – I opened the vein, but to no avail. Shame on me for complaining….
Oh come now, blogs are a total waste of time if we aren’t allowed to whine on them. Don’t worry! 🙂