is anyone even reading this thing? (echo, echo, echo). please shout out if you want me to continue.
Paul Soupiset is a graphic designer, illustrator, songwriter, liturgist, youth media consultant, journalist, mentor, typophile, husband, father, and self-described armchair theologian who lives in San Antonio, Texas, USA, with his wife Amy and four children.
I am!
Sorry I didn't get in touch with you while we were in San Antonio this weekend. Our daughter got sick and that altered some of our plans...
Posted by: john | Tuesday, August 24, 2004 at 09:52 PM
d00d. I still read every day. Mental power to comment extremely limited right now. But reading is integral part of lunch break. Your sensible existence brings sanity to my life. Please don't stop!
More family stuff!! More pics!! More cool graphics!! More things to remind me there is life beyond science!!
I had a thought the other day:
Music (read all art) reminds us that we are creatures and not simply machines.
I was listening to David Francey and Dar tunes on my MP3 player while doing mechanistic, horrid things to mice. He was singing about his wife and their love. She was singing about her commitment to her children. I was instantly transported from where I was to where I wanted to be. I cheerfully finished my mouse slaughter and got the heck out of there, and spent the evening making razberry noises with Zach. He's really good at it.
I thought you would appreciate that vignette.
Posted by: penguin love | Tuesday, August 24, 2004 at 10:44 PM
I read it! Keep up the good work. I also like the aesethics of the design of the page too - but there I go again, getting to arty! Contents is pretty good, too. Ciao
Posted by: jonathan | Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 03:21 AM
Paul: I subscribe to your blog via bloglines and read it every time you post! You are one of my creative inspirations. Keep it up.
Posted by: will | Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 06:49 AM
Jawohl! I've got you in my RSS feed, hence the lack of comments. I'll drop by and leave something every once in a while if you'd like! ;-)
Posted by: James D. | Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 08:15 AM
Still reading here too. Just no time to post any relevant, coherent comments recently. Awaiting baby arrival in the next few weeks (or days? or hours?) is keeping us busy trying to wrap up a few things! Keep on bloggin'!
Posted by: durb | Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 09:21 AM
a zillion people writing for money, trying to please me. i don't read blogs for that.
so if you want to continue, i want to keep reading, but don't keep writing on my account.
but i also know it sucks a lot of energy to blog and i get the "why am i blogging at all" blues about other month or so.
lately i have been wondering if there would be any way to band together, publish a blog with 10 or 20 people, mutually edited. maybe then the pressure to produce would be less, and the overhead of maintaining a web page would be shared.
but i keep wondering if, even if such a thing existed, i would crawl back into my corner and write what i have to write and post it to my private little blog.
so i keep blogging, without exactly knowing why.
i'd be happy to continue to read, if you are happy to keep writing.
Posted by: Michael Toy | Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 10:05 AM
group blogs do exist. Radicalcongruency.com has two posters, and thinklings.org has seven posters. I like the idea of less pressure to "produce," but I too like having my own little nest so I can rearrange the eggs periodically.
I think my opinion on this now is that i must blog with NO EXPECTATION that anyone is reading. I must blog for me, and me alone. If there is helpful feedback or other such dogbones, great. But I don't ever want my blog to become a source of pride or ego-stroking. It's a journal. A public journal, but a journal.
A key thing for me in this respect is feeling the freedom to write nothing if I have nothing important to say.
Posted by: erik | Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 11:26 AM
that's exactly the advice I needed. Blog with the expectation that no on is reading. In one fell swoop my pride in in check, my writing avoids a people-pleasing angle, and I maintain "the freedom to write nothing if I have nothing important to say."
Thank you. Should have been obvious, but wasn't. Maybe because of the guilt associated with getting Communiqué published all the time. seriously, thanks.
Posted by: paul | Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 11:37 AM
Me too! Me Too! Which is to say, I, too, love reading your blog; and I, too, go through periods where I am sure not a soul is reading mine, and wonder why I bother at all.
Posted by: betsy | Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 12:21 PM
reading here, too, although it's gone from "check daily" to "check every few days" since there are sometimes longish blank spots. Like what you have to say. Keep it up, and don't feel like every post has to be deep and meaningful and profound. Unless you want it to be. It's your blog!
Jason
Posted by: JasonY | Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 03:15 PM
i check out every post paul! keep on bro!
Posted by: stephen shields | Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 04:39 PM
by the way, paul, you can know if you're getting read by using the free software avail @ http://www.statcounter.com - hth
Posted by: stephen shields | Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 04:41 PM
I think I've told you before, my typing skills are limited to 3 fingers & both eyes on the keyboard... rather discouraging when I have a plethora of opinions/feedback but not the hours required to type it all in. But this IS one of my regular spots, bookmarked & all.
Posted by: Ted Yun | Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 08:05 PM