Very cute picture of Nana and Clara in Conroe
06 July 2008

I just finished catching up on my brother’s blog (I hadn’t read it in awhile), and I discovered something: my brother is a bit dark.  He did just go through a divorce though, and I imagine that I would be pretty dark after a divorce.

Reading my brother’s blog illustrated perfectly why I like blogs so much.  Blogs are just our rambling thoughts – whatever we’re thinking or feeling at that moment.  When we physically interact with people, there are a couple of things going on:  1) We are responding to the other person’s words and body language; the conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue.  2) We all put on masks — various different masks depending on who we are talking to and the situation — when we are face to face with people.

Blogs are just one person’s unedited thoughts.  You learn things about people — people you love very much and want to know intimately — that you would have never learned otherwise.  Blogs are digital windows.

I really like blogs.