Comments on: The Deep Play of Blogging, Philosophy or Theology https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/12/the-deep-play-of-blogging-philosophy-or-theology/ Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Thu, 14 Nov 2013 01:07:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/12/the-deep-play-of-blogging-philosophy-or-theology/#comment-18269 Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:54:39 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/08/12/the-deep-play-of-blogging-philosophy-or-theology/#comment-18269 Thanks, Les, and welcome to my blog.

Thanks to daily blogging, I have discovered that the craft gets honed in the doing of it.

My posts are so much better than they were a year or nine months ago. I guess constant practice has sharpened the writing–and made it conversational rather than literary (which is a good thing for a blog, I guess).

]]> By: Les Burch https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/12/the-deep-play-of-blogging-philosophy-or-theology/#comment-18268 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 21:25:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/08/12/the-deep-play-of-blogging-philosophy-or-theology/#comment-18268 Good thoughts that: take the pressure off, relieve the urgency of making world changing impact,and release me from owning the results.

Still I can't help but feel a tension between honing the craft and using it.

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/12/the-deep-play-of-blogging-philosophy-or-theology/#comment-18267 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 19:29:40 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/08/12/the-deep-play-of-blogging-philosophy-or-theology/#comment-18267 Funny, Louise, I consistently hear God tell me to write the little things he tells me, teaches me or shows me as they occur, and I feel they are too slight.

I guess I need to give up the idol of being a ninja blogger so to allow God to speak through my blog to anyone he wants to speak.

Because the long, meaty posts often don't work, particularly!!

]]> By: Louise https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/12/the-deep-play-of-blogging-philosophy-or-theology/#comment-18266 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 14:43:46 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/08/12/the-deep-play-of-blogging-philosophy-or-theology/#comment-18266 Sometimes I find it very easy to write when you have learnt something about God, or something has happened and you just bursting to tell people about it… I love your posts Anita, you are blessed as a blogger for a reason. It would be really cool to see a few where you have not thought so much about them, but where you are just bursting to tell people because it has just happened… They might complement the ones you think through a lot!

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/12/the-deep-play-of-blogging-philosophy-or-theology/#comment-18265 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 13:59:52 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/08/12/the-deep-play-of-blogging-philosophy-or-theology/#comment-18265 I have certainly spent a huge amount of time thinking, talking, worrying, fretting about art, and not creating it. But as long as one is alive, one can change, thank goodness!!

]]> By: prochaskas https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/12/the-deep-play-of-blogging-philosophy-or-theology/#comment-18264 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 13:24:33 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/08/12/the-deep-play-of-blogging-philosophy-or-theology/#comment-18264 Reminds me of a quotation from Chesterton about being careless, in the sense of not caring so much, not being so worried and willful, and about art — how artists do art because they have to — it burns within them and must come out — whereas some who want to be artists spend their time and energy thinking about art and about their art and sort of talking around it.

(While I see and appreciate his point, I also see how talking and thinking about things is not ALWAYS about being worried or avoiding the substance / core / essence / foundation or manufacturing art out of nothing, but can be play and a snack.)

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