{"id":1042,"date":"2021-12-22T17:07:06","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T17:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edwardoconnor.ca\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2021-12-22T17:07:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T17:07:06","slug":"a-word-to-my-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edwardoconnor.ca\/a-word-to-my-readers\/","title":{"rendered":"A Word to My Readers"},"content":{"rendered":"
When I started this blog three-and-a-half years ago, my goal was simple and not terribly ambitious. I wanted to contribute a new entry once a month, every month. It didn\u2019t matter to me whether the entries were long or short; it didn\u2019t even matter whether their quality was first-rate or simply mediocre. I thought the discipline involved with writing about something new every month was the main thing. Over time, if I kept to this schedule, the quality would even out, and I\u2019d find myself participating in a certain process of discovery. That is, I\u2019d figure out what mattered enough to me to write about, and I could leave behind and unattended all those things that didn\u2019t matter at all.<\/p>\n
For the first two years, I more or less stuck to this schedule and was more or less happy with the results. Not only was I discovering what really mattered, but, thanks to comments from you, Dear Reader, I felt engaged in conversation with someone who found these matters to be important too.<\/p>\n
In the third year, the whole world seized up and started to perform a credible impression of that late, lamented madman, that wizard of the non sequitur,\u00a0 Professor Irwin Corey. In other words, the Covid-19 pandemic encircled the globe and upended every aspect of our daily routines.<\/p>\n