To thine own self be true ... Shakespeare said it first, but sometimes we bloggers need a reminder of this. Nothing gets more personal than a journal, and a large part of blogging is really what used to be called journaling, an exercise I remember well from acting workshops I took back when I thought I might be the next Anson Williams, a pathetic ambition if I ever heard one. Steve at Second Nature has a good post calling us back to this truth, along with another:

Never bring a knife to a gunfight.

I am not sure who coined that phrase, but it probably wasn't the guy with the knife.

Steve describes the desire we all feel to post on every hot topic in the news, as if we're the mainstream media and are somehow obligated to remark on every single bit of data that winds up on our screens. Steve, who has been refining his blogging over the past few weeks, has settled on what works for him, and his blogging is better for it. No doubt he could write well on a wide variety of subjects, but it would eventually drain his enthusiasm, I think.

And don't forget to blogroll Second Nature. Like Twilight Cafe, it's an intriguing diversion from war and diplomacy into thoughtful topics.

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