Tuesday, December 09, 2008
The Three R's
Lately, I've taken to going back into my draft posts - the ones where I started a post then decided to save it for later. Sometimes I don't have the time to fully develop an idea, and sometimes I start it and, for whatever reason, lose the creative energy to continue, or lose my train of thought.I have 60 of them.
In an effort to always have something posted here, I have been looking for unfinished posts, and then, y'know, finishing them, and scheduling them out ahead.
But there are some posts where now, months later, I have no idea where the post was going to go, what I was trying to say.
But there's still some value in them, I think. Maybe if I contemplate it, I can fill in the blanks. Maybe not. But at least it might be interesting.
Presented below is one such post. I originally started it on 17 April 2007. The parts in square brackets are where I was leaving myself an idea of what to write, a space I could fill in later with more details.
I don't remember what was going to go in the last one - the one about Sunday school - except the vague outlines of my memory of first contact with organized religion. I don't remember how it fit into the rest of the post.
I've given this post a tag of "draft", so that I can do this again in the future and collect 'em all in one place.
Feel like helping? Post a comment to share your thoughts on the theme I was aiming for. Help me do some archaeology into my own mind...
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I was complimented recently on my writing. She told me it was warm, and friendly, and that she could just imagine me right there in the room with her.
[Story about having a typewriter when I was in Kindergarten]
Not sure if those stories were gibberish or actual stories - but there's evidence that they may have been readable, at least.
[Story about mom watching me and my sister looking at the Sunday funnies on the living room floor - and mom realized I was actually reading them to my older sister. According to the family mythology, I was three years old.]
Post title mentions the three R's and between 'riting and reading that's only two. You may think that the third R is 'rithmetic, but I had in mind my first encounter with Religion...
[Story about bible school]
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