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Where blogs can go?

Shelley at burningbird is celebrating three years of blogging with a little old and little new.

In addition to her thoughtful essays, she illustrates her writings with knock-out photographs. It's stuff that she thinks about and stuff that she sees. Essay writing and photography are forms that are not usually presented to us instantly. With blog publishing, we are getting her thoughts and pictures fairly close to real time.

She has done fine writing on the poet Emily Dickenson and is now musing on 20th century photographer Walker Evans (of Now Let Us Praise Famous Men).

Her blog is a feast (as opposed to the popcorn and snacks most of us in the blog world dish out).

In a completely different field, Karen, the proprieter of the Heretic's Corner, has been grappling with the current civil war within the Episcopal Church. You will find her essays here (part 1) and here (part 2).

She is one of many seminarians linked here, and frankly, their thoughtful postings are worth spending time reading. They are also giving us examples of how folk in the church can communicate and talk to each other.

You may or may not agree with Karen's conclusions, but as she, like the rest of us, struggles with the ying-yang, we will find that calm thoughtfulness and prayer may help us through the storm.