Thoughts About Thoughtful Thursday

Today on Thoughtful Thursday, we're going to take a little look back at what we've seen, done, and accomplished in this little weekly time slot. Of all the weekly topics, I think Thoughtful Thursday has been the most… erm… challenging.

Movie Monday? No problem. Lots of stuff to write about there. Tuneful Tuesday? Back in the groove. Getting the pattern established. Wordy Wednesday? Rant city, man. Getting intense about the words. Freebie Friday? Always seems to be some free software or other out there to have a look at. Super Saturday? Golden. The field is wide open.

But Thoughtful Thursday has been patchy, spotty, uneven, and downright uppity.

I started off with a talk about The Power of Now on August 6th. It was an okay post, but I realized after writing it that I didn't want to do reviews of self-help books every week. Also, despite my interest in the Law of Attraction, in general terms, I find I'm not all that cool with the new-agey lingo that's thrown around in a lot of the books and videos about it. It's all very rosy-cheeked and fluffy and filled with jelly beans. I like my philosophy and spirituality a little grittier, thank you very much, a little more down-to-earth, a little edgier. That's just the way I run, home-skillets.

So nix on the "We Are the World" self-help book reviews. What's next?

Ah, yes… The next week, August 13th. "The Blog and the Anti-Blog". My first rebellious post. My first attempt to say, "Why the fuck am I doing this?" My first kick against the self-imposed regimen. I was feeling absolutely rotten that day, so I just spewed. Mildly humourous at best. Utterly pointless at worst. Moving on.

Week Three, August 20th. Guest post week. Thoughtful Thursday was pre-empted by a post from Asheyna, called "Open Source… Fan Fiction for Geeks?" I loved it, not only because it was an interesting post, but also because I still wasn't feeling all that great (oh, memories of the heat wave) and was happy to have someone else write the content that day.

Week Four, August 27th. "Deep Thoughts (or not)". This post marked a sort of turning point. Very reflective, asked some good questions, talked about honesty and finding out my own intentions. Also had an argument with myself about the whole "no personal stuff on this blog" issue, which I now realize is a bunch of pretentious hogwash. Personal stuff is going to come out here on these pages. I'm just not going to dwell on it. So, progress of sorts.

Week Five, September 3rd. "Thoughtful Thursday? What a Hope". This was a very silly post. I think it makes for an amusing read, but it's not really all that thoughtful. Caffeine, procastination, computer desks, and the downfall of civilization. Sounds like the makings of a bad science-fiction novel. Great. Now I've got that idea in my head. However, NaNoWriMo is coming up…

Which brings us to last week's experiment, "A Little Riff on Non-Existence", which marks my first foray into the world of philosophy. I quite enjoyed writing that post, as it really got my mind working overtime and made me think carefully about what I was writing, so that I could be as clear as possible. It's kind of a heavy topic, especially thrown at my readers all of a sudden like that, after the silliness and the nonsense, and the Cinnabons. But still, I was pleased with that one.

So what is to become of Thoughtful Thursday now?

I'm not sure. I like the self-exploration stuff. And I really like the philosophy stuff, too. I'm certainly no philosopher, but I do have a copy of Philosophy for Dummies, so I think I'll dust that off and read some more of it. I might feel the urge to wax philosophical again sometime soon, so it would be nice to have some information stored in the old noggin.

So far the Thursday posts have been little snapshots of my headspace that day, which is cool, because that's what "thoughtful" is really all about. Reflective. Introspective. It's not what I had envisioned when I originally came up with my "blog schedule", but I think it's evolved appropriately.

Good to look back, so that I can look forward.

Thanks for indulging me.

Gesundheit.