with few exceptions, most people i know share the opinion that blogging is a colossal waste of time. posting blogs wastes time. checking them wastes time. despair.com says what we're all probably thinking each time we sit down in the fish-belly glow of our computer screens to update or to blogroll:
"never before have so many people with so little to say said so much to so few."
(by the way, same goes for facebook and twitter.)
we hobbits at michael delving have spent the winter months busily living real life. and we truthfully haven't missed utilizing this blog except on rare occasions.
like when ela stepped outside into the nasty early morning of daylight savings time sunday, took a deep breath, and exclaimed, "it smells like beautiful!"
or when boookie woke up in the middle of the night wailing, "it's asleep! it's asleep!" the mayor rush to help reengage whichever little limb had lost circulation. "what's asleep, son?" boookie pointed weakly to his own chest and answered in a devastated squeak, "ME!"
the potential beauty of blogs (at least the ones i waste my time with) remains in their celebration of small things. and i think that is why and how this blog will be recommissioned. it is for family, and all those who might as well be family, to see pictures of our hobbitlings as they grow. but it is also a chance for me to look at my mundane world with the expectation that i will find things worthy of celebration. "no doubt to others, our ways seem quaint,” said a famous (and overly-quoted) hobbit on the big screen. “but, today of all days, it is brought home to me: it is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life!"
three more days until the simple life of spring begins and, with it, a new leaf of our blog at michael delving.
