Lisa of Chasing Grace has written something that tells me why I should continue this crazy blogging occupation (not that I was thinking of stopping, mind you).
On the blogging landscape you will find mansions and hovels, fortresses and castles, shopping malls, business, galleries, theaters, humble homes, gardens, quiet places of meditation and amusement parks. There are institutions of higher learning, and galleries of talking cats. It’s an amazing world of megabytes and mega pixels, guaranteed to entertain, frustrate, cajole, mesmerize and bore you to tears.
I’m amazed by it, and a bit overwhelmed. I wonder why I even bother to continue with my own. Mine is just a tiny little house, on an immense landscape that seemingly goes on forever. A tiny little house, with one cat in the window and a small garden of little consequence.
So what is Barnabas Quotidianus? Fortress, mansion, humble home, amusement park? It’s certainly not a shopping mall and I hope I don’t bore you to tears.
Lisa says she would definitely continue, even if no one came calling. I share that. As Lisa says, it’s her own little space on this vast landscape.
It’s one tiny synapses in the growing collective mind of the blogoshpere.
So, bloggers and readers, I’m going to continue working on my synapse, as small and insignificant as it may be, just because it is part of this growing collective mind.
The Baha’i sacred texts refer to this time in history as the coming of age of the human race and envisage the growth of a global civilization based on justice and a deeply rooted understanding of human oneness (while welcoming human diversity). The web, and particularly the blogosphere, is creating a collective global mind – indeterminate, often vague, mutually contradictory, reflecting all of our humanness – good, bad and indifferent.
(Hat tip Tess of Anchors and Masts for posting about this and linking to Lisa’s blog.)
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Thank you so much for the mention and the link. You have a lovely home here.
Mine is definitely the living room; yours feels like a very, private,
study.
Lisa, Toby, many thanks for your comments. I am happy to have been pointed to Lisa’s blogging home by a fellow visitor and I’m sure I’ll be back.
I’ve been popping in and out of Toby’s living room for quite a while now – always something interesting going on there, and I do like to leave a comment from time to time.
Actually I think you’re on to something, Toby. Your living room? My private study? I guess that feels about right. Hmm, I shall have to think about this.
I like the expression ‘collective mind’. It’s really like that. I also love the collective photoalbum Flickr.
I think of your blog as more of a very big geodesic dome, covering more or less the whole world of interesting ideas.
Love,
Wendi
“Collective mind” is a good phrase. When one thinks of the development of global communications – postal, telephone, internet, what comes next? – one can see the growth of a global “nervous system” for humankind. The information, ideas, feelings, spirituality, ethics, stories, etc that flow through that nervous system constitute the collective global mind.
Wendi, I like the idea of BQ as a geodesic dome covering the whole world of interesting ideas. That’s less restrictive than being a private study – and, yet, there is an element of the private study i BQ as well.
Barney, I would dare say that where you live might be described as an Apple forest, a glorious and inspired place where ideas take shape as you play with Tigers and Leopards. DH
Here there be Tygers?
I ride the Tiger right now, but am waiting, patiently waiting for the Leopard in the Apple forest.
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