Root tapping


New category and new focus

I figured out what I am going to do with this blog and it has everything to do with that new "Taproots" category.

One of my "touchstones," Lupa, has been documenting part of her path and explorations. It's been a fascinating read.

Then there is my periodic frustration with how my ideas get spread out in different entries in this blog. For example, there are about 20 entries here where I talk about the differences between an experienced and a revealed faith, move to (eventually) realize the Story vs. the Journey metaphor, and toss in refinements as I think about it and talk to other people. But there is no ONE place that brings the best of all that together.

If you are going to be honest about keeping a blog, you don't usually go back and edit previous entries to show later realizations. What I need is something where I can put down the best thoughts and then go back and rewrite and edit.

Enter the Taproots.

Each Taproot entry is going to cover one topic that I consider really important. It will be the best I can do at present, but unlike the other blog entries it will be edited and rewritten from time to time. Eventually these entries will be more like articles, longer and more in depth. I'll credit my sources and give hyperlinks where available. Each Taproot will show my lore, understanding, and opinion in the moment, but subject to change in the details. A few steps further than the FAQs I've put together, and without the questions.

The other entries here at Technopagan Yearnings will be my notes and thoughts will be my notes and thoughts on modern American Paganism. The Taproot entries will be the distillation of those thoughts into something useful that I can send people to when they ask questions.

Originally I was going to call it 180 proof, and then one eighty-three proof. Kudos and a gold star with apple leaf clusters to you if you get the latter reference. It just goes to show that you can't count on all your inspiration from when you crouch over a laptop, naked and wrapped in a fuzzy blanket, letting the firelight play in the room. You have to filter the inspiration through reason to make it work on a practical level. So Taproots it is, a natural extension of my webtree lore.

Depending on how this works out, I may adapt this idea to my political blog Pagan Vigil, which is spread out even worse.

Posted: Tue - December 4, 2007 at 11:50 PM
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