Bon Appetit
As a writer, my blog gives me the opportunity to break down my body of work into digestible bite size pieces. About a week’s worth of posts will fit on one page at any given time. I think of them like I think about a 7 course meal. I like to have a variety of short and long entries highlighted with a photo or two…a quote here… a link there…and a poem for those who have room for dessert. Sometimes a post is meant as an appetizer to whet one’s palette for a future main course and often the entries (knowingly or not) are loosely related or compliment each other in some way. After preparing and serving up my own offerings, I frequently go to someone else’s site to see what they’ve been cooking up.
And today we have a leftover because it fits with the menu:
How a poem is like cake
Don’t use a mix
or stale ingredients
Don’t look in the oven
too much when it’s cooking
or eat too much at one sitting
Don’t over-sweeten
or over-stir
A baker and a poet
are both concerned with flavor
It’s all about consistency
and knowing when it’s done
May 25th, 2005 1:47 pm
I also try to maintain a balance in what I’m posting although I must admit that I do tend to go go off to far in when direction and then overcompensate to the other side.
I just saw that you are up for a blogette award. Terrific and good luck!
About personality types: I took three free on-line tests and looked through the profiles and I believe that I am a 9. 5, 9, 2, 4 all came up often in that order of frequency, but a quick look at the profiles make me think that nine is the better fit. Now what?
May 25th, 2005 2:39 pm
http://www.authenticenneagram.com/index_home.htmlI recommend Helen Palmer’s work with the enneagram. Here’s a great link. Click on 9 when you get there and read and see if it fits. Don’t worry about wings and subtypes just yet. The enneagram can reveal who we are to the core as it relates to how we act in order to get our needs met…like most type systems, they have the healthy and the unhealthy version.
May 25th, 2005 6:41 pm
Bloody…blogger…I’m….addicted. Do you have any poems on addiction?
May 25th, 2005 11:32 pm
Cool Post, Jelly Bean~
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