from Thursday, September 29th, 2011 1:00 pm:
I've been contemplating a blog for about a year now. I've written lots of blog posts. They're great narratives--you'd enjoy them, if only I had actually typed them out. The big hold up for me was "the perfect blog name". I have mused, occasionally, during the last year over what I would call this blog. I learned that this mattered a lot to me. And nothing seemed right. Other blogs I read have the perfect names. When I get around to the "Blogs I Like" Section, you'll see what I mean.
I don't know if this blog has the perfect name, but it seems fitting. I was sitting on the floor yesterday while nannying and mentally writing another post (you might actually get to read that one) and suddenly this name hit me. River of Thoughts. Which was taken so we have A River of Thoughts. I expect some cross-readership might develop over time. :)
I don't know if this blog has the perfect name, but it seems fitting. I was sitting on the floor yesterday while nannying and mentally writing another post (you might actually get to read that one) and suddenly this name hit me. River of Thoughts. Which was taken so we have A River of Thoughts. I expect some cross-readership might develop over time. :)
And really, I think the name is fitting. For those who know me, or have read emails (or text messages) from me, I try to write to people as I would have a conversation. Some might call it a stream of consciousness, yet despite how we use that phrase, I think it implies a little too much "oversight" by the executive functioning parts of the brain. I like to think that a river of thoughts is bigger, consisting of varying in speeds--maybe even a few bubbly rapid-like spots, and allows for the subconscious to creep into our more active thoughts (yes, making it conscious, but I'm hoping that you see where this is going). I guess what I'm struggling to articulate (final attempt!) is that I think of a river of thoughts as less inhibiting, more free flowing, less pre-thoughtful/planned than a stream of consciousness would be.
There it is. My hope is that these blog posts will truly "sound like me" in the way that I have been told emails, etc have, as if I were sitting across the room from you and chattering about whatever was on my mind (parentheticals, side stepping stories, tangents, detail explanations, et al included).
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