Hello again.
July 18, 2009
After so many days’ absence from bloggery, I guess I should probably explain the context and background of some of my posts. My thoughts on my travels will appear in many forms, appropriate to my own sort of experimentation with how to best express the wonder and the beauty that I have seen.
Since I know my words will never be the measure of the briefest second of my days, I often try instead to present a snapshot of one single moment of my journey. The old adage says a picture is worth a thousand words; the wordcount on many of my posts has been around 300. If a picture is worth a thousand words, and my words equal about a third of a picture, and my actual photographs are, as I estimate, about equal to a blurry daguerreotype of the actual, then you can imagine how inadequately I can capture what I experience.
That said, I will sometimes present quite cohesive, narrative sorts of writing that will be (hopefully) pretty easy to follow. If I diverge at times into more experimental bits (say, poetry or more scatted prose like the Scotland entries), it is only because I’m struggling to find a voice, a form of my own voice, that will even begin to do justice to the impact of the landscape, people, and occurrences I’ve been lucky enough to come across.
And, like I said, once I get back I should be able to add a lot of photogs (just try saying photogs instead of photos; it’s quite exhilarating), which should remove some of the abstractness from a lot of this business. Hope the posts have been enjoyable thus far.
Thanks for reading!
