For over a decade, librarian bloggers in Australia have been re-firing up their sleeping blogs in June.
Initially, as described by Con in 2010, Blogging, thankfully , it was a way to get people who were writing semi-regularly to write more frequently. Everyone aimed to blog every day of June.
The month became a flurry of writing, reading and mutual commenting. Around five years before that, 15 years ago, this type of reflection and co-learning was the crucible that accelerated many of us to become better and more thoughtful practitioners, fast. For a couple of years, many posted at least weekly, read each other’s posts via our RSS readers daily, and commented on each others’ ideas – accelerating their development, thanking the author for their sharing and encouraging them.
Over a decade, library blogging slipped from infrequent, to marginal, to artisan.
Now the practice of blogging feels far more performative than discursive. A bit like standing solo in the spotlight, with expectation that a polished, coherent well-scripted recital will be offered… rather than just a spot to shoot the breeze.
If I am going to do #blogjune this year, then I am going to try to just shoot the breeze.
I want to post here again for a bit, but to get back to something more tentative and conversational. Almost every single aspect of my life has changed in the last 6 months, including the most amazing morning walk in the pic above, so I should have things to share – even if it is just documenting change and development.
Join me if you would like.
I’m already four days behind, but that’s my perpetual state of being at the moment, so I may as well embrace it!
I saw your post about deadlines and smiled. I am sure that when you get there, we will all be glad you did.
I did my last #blogjune in 2016 and that’s where I am leaving it. I decided then that how I wanted to record my life was through PAD (Photo A Day) on Flickr. I do still blog “regularly” on my food blog. I enjoy doing that as a useful way to document and share my recipes (to a very small group of people). Years ago I was part of a flourishing group of food bloggers whose posts I regularly read in my Bloglines or Feedly or whatever it was then (and couldn’t keep up with them). Where have they all gone? I am still in contact with a couple of them. That’s all. In the last couple of years I have started writing a daily journal in notebooks again, but in Greek. I do it essentially to improve my written Greek and I read with my teacher. So it is very different to previous journal writing of mine. Hmm. This could have been a #blogjune post.🤣🤣
I thought I had nothing to say at the moment but now I am not sure. You and Con always get me thinking. Perhaps I can be performative after all