iPods
I don't have an iPod. Not yet anyway. But this made me laugh.
...because my heart is made restless - by echoes of a song I've never heard - and memories of a place I've never seen...
I've been continuing to think about the way that blogs change relationships. I must say that I do think there is something different about experiencing community "in the flesh" that blogs just can't replace.
Brodie at View from the Basement is asking a similar question to the one I'm interested in:
So I guess the question is, ‘is it just the context for how we tell our stories & communicate with each other’ that is changing or is there a more fundamental change taking place?
Today I was in a cafe and there was advertising on the tabletop! I hope this is not a growing trend, otherwise there will soon be nowhere to escape...
Last week I was in Brittany, and despite not being a Roman Catholic and not speaking French, I went to Mass at Mont Saint Michel. The whole place felt like something out of a dream. The church was freezing cold, and you could see people's breath merging with the incense. The austere soaring church, with its great grey stone pillars, seemed to be carved out of the bones of the earth, and the disembodied voices singing words I could not understand moved me to tears. I am still strangely comforted by the knowledge that there are 12 people there who, day in and day out, hold up the world in prayer.
I have a book of T.S. Eliot's poetry out of the library at the moment, and I've sat down with it a few times to try to understand (in an experiential kind of way) why he is considered such a great poet. Thus far, I've experienced mainly frustration - I know there's something going on here, but I can't quite figure out what. There are parts that resonate:
I am interested in discovering how blogs change the way people relate to each other. It feels strange to direct my thoughts to 'the world out there' rather than to a specific individual or group. I am slightly uncomfortable with the idea of relating to people through a computer screen - without knowing your names or faces, without knowing anything about you, really.