Ah, But That's What I Meant (http://radnichole.wordpress.com/2008/11/25/ah-but-thats-what-i-meant/)
Posted November 25, 2008
Blogs are very like dinner parties in that regard. One writes what moves her today. Hopefully, she does well with it and whatever's there doesn't simply appeal to one or two, but gets read and discussed by more than a few. Hopefully one places what she wishes to say in a context and in words that allow understanding, well, at least the understanding she had when she wrote it.
But, as with any party, any gathering, no one seems able to make certain that what's taken is what she wishes taken. Blogs and parties, perhaps everything we do as human beings, have, almost, a life of their own. The writer puts things on the table and the discussion moves along, uncontrolled, each new writer divigating and changing what's there with their own nuances and ideas as those become inextricably intertwined with whatever the writer placed there to begin with.