2nd Time Around

2^nd Time Around

You Can’t Tell A Book By It’s Cover

Nor a Blog By It’s Title

Nor a poem just heard, but never read.

Common sense suggests one might invest some time just to keep the ball rolling. Read and decide if this is a blog spot suitable for you. From author’s perspective flows a creative pursuit and you are the readership and invited audience. He wants to please. Meet and give you a reason to return. Simple mission statement. Please you. Please return. Become blog friends. Be yourself. Read and Comment, if you chose to do so.

2^nd Time Around is not a marriage blog, nor about divorce or separation. Instead, is about my 2^nd stop on the blogging circuit. Just saying this requires some backstory and interest-filler. Frosting On The Cake. Has been a year or more since my last blog. Takes time and energy to blog daily. Takes time to invest when reading a blog. And energy, too. Two-party collaborative. Invest time and energy. In return get something back that has value. Content provider and audience-reader merge. Becomes one.

Not a comeback, nor a reckoning. To see this in print startles Mr. Content Provider. First time around, he went by the name-identifier: Stoney (blogger ). These days he is not sure if he should rename and reinvent himself. Seems like when your first gig was a success and they branded you. THE BAND. Something new in the neighborhood. Digital neighborhood. 2006. Now the gig is over. The Band has broken up. Gone separate ways.

Takes a breath and realizes that disappearance is similar to death. Can’t just stop blogging for a year, and then expect your audience to be there. Has him thinking. Comeback or reckoning or something quite different now. 

 “How to proceed.”

Will begin with reverse-order topic rendering. Mentioned come-back first. Then reckoning. Clarity and detail comes next. Will work on orientation and intention. Take a few moments to relate the backstory and how it was, the first time around. Think. Sear’s Catalog. Wish Book . 1910.

Reverse order. The Reckoning. Is startled to see this in print. Wonders what he intends to say, and if this would be of interest to a reader. Words in print have consequences, intended or accidental. Seems familiar. Act 1 and he sees reckoning as an act or process of calculating or estimating something. Flashback to something he knows about himself. The old version. Stoney blogger was very calculating. Thought about what he was doing a 100 times over, prior to writing the first work or sentence or paragraph. Calculated. Meant to be a staged-presentation.

“The Show Must Go On.”

Entertainment. Didn’t matter if it was true or pure-deception, slight-of-hand word magic. Who said it had to be true. Calculated to get your attention, keep you around for the length and duration of the blog/essay. Fact or Fiction was irreverent. Come back tomorrow and repeat. Entertainment Experience and also a writing exercise. In the old days this is how it was. Just a show. Made for your out-of-body excursion. Later, go home. Talk about it. Think about it. Forget it. Unreal. Won’t marry you. Permanence Elusive.

The idea of reckoning comes with multiple meanings that I will consider. Act 1 – the reckoning. It is all calculated. Based on something. For Stoney it was calculated on the idea that a daily blog was for entertaining the reader. There was no thought of it being true. Fragments of truth perhaps sifted thru implied universal personal experience was there. Yet, like an actor taking on a role for the purpose of a story-like entertainment package, once done he moved on. An actor’s life like a content provider/writer is calculated. Is the reader/audience that provides the attachment and seeks truth about that which time is invested and the matter of personal reward and benefits enters into all this.

Part 2. Act 2 He didn’t think about this in 2006 when blogging was in its infancy. Now he thinks about it. Reckoning as the avenging or punishing for past mistakes or misdeeds.

He thinks about it now. 2006 . Social media took the form of blogging. Nobody knew for sure what it should be. For 10 years: 2006 to 2016 stoney blogger entertained those who came to read his blogs. And then things changed. Social media changed. The people went away. Stoney blogger stopped writing. The show was over. Something new took its’ place.

Takes a moment to consider all this. “Take a deep breath.”

“Am I okay with this? Are You?”

Decides to embrace his first stated idea. A Come-Back. Anchors this to the title. 2^nd Time Around. Wonders if his time would be better used somewhere else. Time passed. 10 years of blogging and it doesn’t seem to be what people do in 2019. Stoney blogger no longer. Has become someone different over time. Who will read what he writes? Old school material by an Old Dude.

 “Who will read his blog?”

Come-back seems to reflect the issue of leaving the presentation stage due to failure. Failure to keep an audience like all of a sudden the people were saying, 

“Stoney Blogger. Who? Don’t know that one. Before my time. Old School. Like Mom and Dad.”

Never intended to make blogging a popularity contest. But now see this: The Reckoning as if it were contention for a place among the winners of a contest. Never intended to be thrust into the reckoning.

2^nd Time Around and will revisit my Wish List. What is blogging all about for me in 2019. Not the same as when first introduced to it in 2006. That is a long story I won’t go into now. Wish List. Sear’s catalog in 1905. Ingrained with a material-physical lust, and blogging is words on a screen that disappears with one click of a mouse button. Costs the consumer very little. Almost free, yet we know now. In social media they sell your personal information to regain costs incurred. Almost free is a dubious distinction I won’t go into now.

2^nd Time Around. Will I change? Blogger name and will it remain viable, like a branded item, say: “Kraft Cheese.” Have a blog that has not been used for over a year. Will add to it now and see what transpires. 2019 and 2006 and I bear no illusion about social media and how it benefit or imposed limitations. Write. Post. Might not be daily, but that depends on intervention and inspiration derived from the grand design: Original Creation. A favorite thought of mine.