Blogs (53)

I don't follow blogs. Well, one, by a virtual (i.e., FB) friend of mine, Greg Fallis. I wrote a bit about him here. And also here. His blog is always entertaining, and I do get an email notification whenever he posts, so it's easy for me to follow him.

I encounter really interesting, compelling blogs often, though, sometimes while researching a topic here. Today I ran into one that I'd like to read more of. It's by John Patrick Leary and is called Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism. It's about how the marketplace and our power structures have refashioned basic terms of vocabulary—terms like innovation, failure, flexibility, conversation, and engagement. (The context in which I encountered it was a professor of Christian ethics at Duke whom I follow on FB yelling, "The fleeing Holy Family wasn't 'resilient.' Don't preach that"—and she linked to this blog and its definition of resilience.) Me, I am not a fan of corporate capitalism, but I am a fan of language, so I figure this blog is right up my alley. 

I sometimes read Leo Babauta's Zen Habits, and may get back to that as I try (yet again) to institute a daily sitting practice. 

Whenever I remember to dip into the artist Stephen O'Donnell's blog Gods and Foolish Grandeur (Life and the Arts . . . from a Retrograde Perspective), I learn something new and usually quite delicious.

There are so many blogs still out there, even if the blog has been deemed passé. Here's a quick list of subjects that I am (or might become) interested in, with associated blogs—or, in some cases, voluminous end-of-the-year lists of blogs, many from the website Feedspot, "the Internet's largest human curated database of blogs and podcasts":

• The 20 Best Knitting Blogs for 2023 (no, I don't knit . . . but I'm considering taking it up?)
• 11 Mindfulness Blogs to Create Inner Peace
• 20 Best Art Book Blogs and Websites (I would like to get back to making artist books) 
• 70 Best Climbing Blogs and Websites (I may not climb anymore, but I still enjoy reading about it—and who knows, I might still get back out on some easy rock . . . a goal for 2023?)
• 50 Best Board Game Blogs (see my post from yesterday)
• My Jigsaw Journal and of course there's 40 Best Jigsaw Puzzle Blogs and Websites
  
• 6 Blogs to Help You Learn French Online (for Free!) or 10 Must-Read French and French Learning Blogs
• Which reminds me that in a fit of energetic optimism, I resubscribed to Practice Portuguese, which is not a blog but a language-learning site. I need to start fitting in a daily lesson. I'm paying for it, after all! But back to blogs:
  
• 17 Best Food Blogs to Slake Your Hunger in 2023
• Top 10 Best Baking Blogs for 2022
• 80 Most Popular Gardening Blogs to Be an Expert Gardener
  
• Here's a blog on succulent gardening 
• And here are a couple on dahlias: American Dahlia Society blog and the Dahlia Barn blog
• 100 Best Science Blogs and Websites for Latest Science News and Information 
  
• 70 Best Global Warming Blogs and Websites 
• 12 Best Travel Blogs in 2022 or there's the 100 Best Travel Blogs to Read posted just a few days ago 
• 100 Best Bird Blogs and Websites for Ornithologists and Bird Lovers
  

Okay. There's a start. Though I do find these enormous lists of 50 and 100 daunting, to say the least . . . I guess one can start at the top and go from there. Perhaps I'll cull a shorter list, more particularized to my own tastes and interests. Maybe I'll start fitting in a daily blog read—right after my sit and before my Portuguese lesson. Followed up by that Fair Isle sweater that I'll start knitting as soon as I learn how to cast on.