As long-time readers know, this site started out as a home for my “highly irregular” online column, SEMI TRUTHS, with new material coming out an average of every two weeks. Several months ago, I re-fashioned the site as a weblog, mainly to take advantage of the content management tools. Even more recently, I made a decision to start using this site more as, well, a real weblog, with the intent of adding material every day. It’s been a challenge, not because I don’t have enough to say, but because I want what I write here to be thoughtful and entertaining.
When I heard of the Columbia disaster yesterday, my first impulse was to turn to the web. I began writing down my thoughts and reactions to no one in particular, and concluded the day with a review of a concert I attended that afternoon. Going back today and reading those entries, now that the shock has worn off, my comments seem trite and painful. I am tempted to simply delete those entries, but after some thought have decided to leave them as they are. As it turns out, I was not alone. Below is a link to another site that has gathered responses from other weblogs, many just like mine, with other writers struggling to find meaningful words. See Shuttle Lost: How the Blog Community reacts.
Thanks for reading.