I wrote a longish essay-as-question on a friend's blog this afternoon and answered something for myself.
I'd have put that topic in different language if it had been written here, and I would have missed the answer I got from writing over there.
For this reason, I see that I'm going to have to open up the content I write here and get outside "the yoga or the relationship" which is my current dual channel here.
This will mean, talking about the stuff I teach more, the stuff I think with, the art, the film, the theory, all of that academic jazz. Now, in case that sounds super boring (which I don't think it often will be) or super esoteric (which is virtually guaranteed), I have questions for you largely-anonymous readers out there:
1. Should there be a new site for that? Wordpress or something?
2. Will you still read here if I tag posts things like "yoga" or "academics" or "shock value" or stuff like that? You know how I can get creative with a title. Basically, this place is going to have to go "life" versus just going "yoga" and yeah yeah you can say "those are the same" all day long, but you and I both know that's just Bad Advaita bullshit, so shut it.
3. How in the world is my number of followers increasing, when I hardly ever post anything on anyone's blog and I've more-and-more turned toward writing in the "I don't give a flying fuck if you read this or not" vein with precisely that attitude? Not that I mind. As someone in the NYT citing John Updike said this week, "No act is so private that it doesn't seek applause."
Note:
I would like ANSWERS to these considerations, particularly to the first one, where I'm wondering if I should open a new "all of me" blog or just write more broadly about all aspects in *this* location. Writing about all aspects is not optional.
Thanks everyone!
3 comments:
Hi Patrick,
To answer your question - as one of your anonymous lurkers I would love it if you posted more art nerd stuff stuff here. I'm an ashtangi, art historian, curator, writer and zen practitioner so while I'm a sucker for theory on its own, I think that a collision of yoga and academia would be fun.
All the best,
Emma
Ugh, don't make me go to more than one place!
Post away on whatever you feel the inclination to write about and I'll keep reading. No need for a new site.
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