tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170814845771372625.post3699368661659052753..comments2024-02-08T10:33:22.915+13:00Comments on Available Light: Why I Stopped BloggingKelvin Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16682322819567886400noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170814845771372625.post-74728998338740204772014-12-05T15:42:03.326+13:002014-12-05T15:42:03.326+13:00Thank you Kelvin for resuming - like many others I...Thank you Kelvin for resuming - like many others I am grateful for your words and photos - they make me pause to consider the good and bad in my life. I also agree with the comment that so many young people live in cyberspace - we need words such as yours in their sphere to hopefully engage them. MichelleAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15913453986103205035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170814845771372625.post-84197228938211241702014-12-03T06:24:42.308+13:002014-12-03T06:24:42.308+13:00I have appreciation for the vocation to hermit, as...I have appreciation for the vocation to hermit, as I'm sure you do too, Kelvin. And I have hermit moments and hermit dimensions to my life. I understand the Quaker liturgy of silence. <br /><br />But alongside these, in real life, we speak, and share, and some even preach and pray aloud. <br /><br />My concern, in this new land of cyberspace where so many, especially the youth, now live, is not that we will say too much, but that the spiritual and gospel presence are missing or thin, or dominated by twisted, unhealthy versions. <br /><br />To not be present healthily in cyberspace is like not being present healthily in Africa or Europe or Asia or New Zealand. <br /><br />One way to celebrate 200 years of the gospel in this land is to encourage people to bring bring glad tidings of great joy to this young land of cyberspace.<br /><br />Advent Blessings<br /><br />Bosco<br />www.liturgy.co.nzliturgyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11822769747947139669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170814845771372625.post-72792612971705563232014-12-02T18:03:50.573+13:002014-12-02T18:03:50.573+13:00Kelvin your writing often prompts me to thinking d...Kelvin your writing often prompts me to thinking deeply about my own experiences and for that i am grateful. As I travel around Bangladesh it's nice to have the voices of friends speak if somewhat vicariously into my days. I too wonder about the photos that I take and I think am I missing something behind the camera. But in retrospect my memory cannot retain all of the moments and the photo is simply the prompt in the future to remind me of the joy, sadness , the experience of the moment long gone. Loved the piece on rural. You manage to put into words what we all know to be true that's why your blog is appreciated. Wendy ScottWendy Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170814845771372625.post-90534043919329264082014-12-02T06:53:13.280+13:002014-12-02T06:53:13.280+13:00Your post bears an uncanny resemblance to a lectur...Your post bears an uncanny resemblance to a lecture I heard last week from the world's greatest living philosopher! http://anglicandownunder.blogspot.co.nz/2014/12/alain-badiou-and-available-light-la.html Peter Carrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09535218286799156659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170814845771372625.post-61282527066082789882014-11-30T08:11:00.507+13:002014-11-30T08:11:00.507+13:00+Kelvin, you have been & are in my every morni...+Kelvin, you have been & are in my every morning prayer. Thank you for allowing your gifts to be a blessing to us.<br />Merv.Mervhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09199171033170618343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170814845771372625.post-72724578105484162542014-11-30T07:00:56.738+13:002014-11-30T07:00:56.738+13:00....... So welcome back to the BlogSphere Kelin, y.......... So welcome back to the BlogSphere Kelin, you thoughts are always erudite and interesting and your photography is superb.Alden Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06601028197387499096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170814845771372625.post-26876669115739183052014-11-29T23:10:20.652+13:002014-11-29T23:10:20.652+13:00Robert Johnson the world - renowned Jungian analys...Robert Johnson the world - renowned Jungian analyst, writing about an experience before the invention of the Internet where he used to exchange tapes by mail with friend wrote, "My friend lives far away and we meet infrequently. At one rare meeting my friend said, - "Robert, why is it that you are so much more intelligent on tape than in conversation? Don't answer; I know. On the tape I don't interrupt!" - Talking to him by tape had engaged my feeling function and given me the freedom to process my own thoughts. You can give another person a precious gift if you will allow him to talk without contaminating his speech with your own material." Now, I feel strongly that this is the attraction of writing for many people - It's a kind of 'Journaling' ones own little life journey. I do this when writing my own blog, I don't know or particularly care whether or not anyone thinks my Blogspeak is any more intelligent than my interpersonal conversation but I find that writing without interruption DOES have the effect of focussing, organising and expressing myself in a way that is not really available in any other way. I think that the answer to "To Blog or not to Blog? that is the question" is not an Either/Or answer. The answer is the integration into life of a couple of opposites - There is time enough for DOING and BEING. Finding this balance resolves what seems a paradox - In fact the Doing of writing is expressing the thoughts of our Being. Apart from any other consideration, I find writing my Blog is fun - and fun is good!Alden Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06601028197387499096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170814845771372625.post-40314513757833076102014-11-29T17:03:55.581+13:002014-11-29T17:03:55.581+13:00I am also grateful for the return of your wise wor...I am also grateful for the return of your wise words and artful photos. I have missed you and them.Elmer E. Ewinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17601870104118149054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170814845771372625.post-20983617065906936682014-11-29T08:06:48.536+13:002014-11-29T08:06:48.536+13:00I could be Christina, except living here in Tauran...I could be Christina, except living here in Tauranga, New Zealand. I also stopped blogging, and resumed, because I disliked but also missed a 'forced' opportunity for reflection that came with my writing, and disliked and also missed the paring-down of the surplus words to find a literary (and sometimes real) kernal of understanding. <br />Ain't life interesting?<br />Welcome back Kelvin. Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12453125929159161583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170814845771372625.post-23108656079212405482014-11-29T03:19:27.836+13:002014-11-29T03:19:27.836+13:00Thank you! I understand completely and have actual...Thank you! I understand completely and have actually had a similar experience with my own writing. Having stopped some of it for awhile I've just begun again but less frequently - must be something in the ether. I have lately realized the loveliness of just sitting briefly to merely listen to birds or to recognize the sudden quiet in a fleeting moment when my tiny corner of the world seems to have a nanosecond of rest. Having accidentally deleted a couple of photos from my phone, I will rest with more ease than disappointment - the moment captured is still in my mind's eye and my heart. Blessings to you from the other side of the world - east coast USA.Christina Brennan Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08010750265041698257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170814845771372625.post-61401736224255325412014-11-29T02:59:56.313+13:002014-11-29T02:59:56.313+13:00Kelvin, I absolutely resonate with those good reas...Kelvin, I absolutely resonate with those good reasons to stop blogging! I'll add another one: the hubris of seeing how many people read the last post. Your description of putting the camera down to see again is beautiful and reminds of Malcolm Guites's recent poem,"And Is It Not Enough?" asking why write yet another poem about a river in autumn when others have done it better. In spite of the hubris reasons that sneak into blogging, I continue (after thoughtfully reading this post) because, in the difficult process of taking time to write, I learn more deeply what God has been up to, I can give testimony to that with others with whom I may not otherwise have had a conversation, and finally I very occasionally become aware that God's Spirit has used those words to help another. Your posts have done that for me. This one has. Welcome back. Grateful. Elaine Denthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05277699063620071309noreply@blogger.com