Being naturally somewhat expressive and feeling that one of the many reasons I am here and writing like this is to share it with an admiring public, I’ve looked into, here and there, various ways in which people claim that blog traffic can be increased. Not that I’ve actually followed through with most, or that they’ve yet been successful, but my day will come (or it won’t), and still I can educate myself about What To Do.
One thing that made many suggestion lists was to list my blog on blog search sites. Ooh, I like that one! Easy, quick, just a few clicks and I’m there. Right?
But wait. They’re asking me to, well, define my blog.
Uh oh.
What am I?
Life blog? Okay. Yeah. Check.
Mommy blog? Ugh. Hate the title, but I guess so. I am a mom, after all, and I do mention the children. So…yeah. Check.
Down syndrome blog? Ooh, this is getting harder. I hate labels. Well, yes, Eric does have DS, but, does my blog? Hmm. I don’t know about this one. But I do talk about DS, so, well, check.
Spiritual blog? I have mentioned my “other” life, right? Where I’m a, uh, psychic? Sort of? I mean, it’s what I do. And it is who I am, part of it, so, well, okay. Check.
See my problem?
I’m “supposed” to have a niche. But I fit in so many places.
Too bad.
I’m not sure any of us fit in just one box or another.
So what the hell, I’ve decided to bring you more! of! everything!
With that in mind, here’s a little piece that came in tonight, just for you:
This is a momentous time. As the world awaits the repercussions of the execution of arguably one of the most reviled men in history, Saddam Hussein, it also is poised for peace. The prospect of peace across much of the world’s surface area is greater this day than it has been in 20 years. Indeed, then, it is a momentous time.
Some of you may have noted the astrological peculiarities of this time. This, indeed, is yet another reflection of the great changes in the offing for the race known in this place as human. This is a time of great manifestation. It has been said, and we concur, that you are the reality that you create. Why not, then, become a co-creator and make what it is you most love? Why not gain access to all the locked-away information gathered about your innermost self and all the lives you have had, will have, and are having; do you not want more than anything the connection that this would bring with all of your selves? And in so doing would bring also such a connection with all of humanity?
We have stated before, and we will say this again, that the reason for experiencing life as you know it on the physical plane is simply to have and to know relationships between yourself and other people. That’s it. There is no more. And that is enough, isn’t it? The manifestation of every known life circumstance, every possible relationship interaction, is what you have chosen to live and learn from. This, then, is your job, your reason for being.
Do, then, attempt amid the hustle and bustle of normal daily life, to hold within yourself the awareness that you are indeed here for a reason, a very great reason. Hold also, if you will, the expectation that there is indeed something “more†out there, something more in store.
We urge you, then, to breathe with the great possibilities that exist for not only your personal future but also for the future of your race. You are, indeed, poised at the very edge of something momentous. Remember this moment years hence when you can then look back and say, “I was there. I saw the changes.â€
Go in peace.
Have a wonderful night.
P.S. You like this? Come back next Friday for more, or you can visit me on my website.
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December 30th, 2006 at 4:46 pm
When I first began blogging about Miss E, I found that I wanted to be identified as a blog that focused on DS. Yet, as the blog evolved, it didn’t seem as though it was always my primary focus. Some people were likely disappointed by this.
I moved from listing my links as DS, then T21, and now the blogs that focus on families with children with DS are simply listed as those with a little bit of something extra. The labels bother me, it is not as if I am trying to hide anything, but I just don’t like them. I try not to include the words “Down syndrome” in most of my posts these days because the extra material on her 21st pair doesn’t define Miss E, nor does it define me.
As you know I recently began digging deep within my emotion pit, into the darkest parts of who I am, those I have hidden for most of my life–I moved to two blogs. One public, one private. Because I found that while the majority of my readers didn’t mind the extra thoughts (in fact some of them seemed to thrive on them) there were those who felt offended that I wasn’t producing the sort of blog they expected to read.
Blogging is so easy to do, and yet so complicated.
The whole traffic issue is very complex. For example, there are always bloggers who have more links, more traffic, more of what a blogger is looking for–and likewise there are those who have less. Sometimes blogging feels a bit cliquish (sp?). If you make a habit of commenting often, and being recognized, it will bring readers to you.
If your comments are interesting enough, it may even bring comments to you. Yet, there are the blogs who no matter how many times one comments, the other blogger never return the blog love, they never even visit. I guess there are times that blogging can be summarized as the first semester in high school. If your in the “in” crowd you will soar, and if your not… well you get the idea.
Keep doing what your doing, what makes you feel complete and whole. Not everyone may agree with it, or understand it, they may not embrace it or endorse it, or even welcome it but writing is amazing therapy for the soul.
Why not expose it?
Whew… this was a long comment. I hope you don’t mind.