Bring Back the Sunday Collage!

 Many years ago, I began to focus on writing one good post every week.

Writing is often a trial-and-error event. We write some very good things, and we write some hideously bad things. Thus as our mood changes, the good writing becomes quite apparent to us and the bad writing is also revealed.

I note this on several blogs I read daily and weekly. Some are better than others. But what's obvious to me is that the writers have no ill intent. They are writing not because they are being compensated- they are writing because they love to write. 

So years ago, I wrote the Sunday Collage. The Sunday Collage was a collection of all my thoughts and observations during a week, like snipped pictures or images, that I had collected in my mind. Then I would gather those images and write about them here. 

It was perfect. One well thought out piece of writing each week. 

Once, I had some angry woman comment that I didn't even know what a collage was. Of course, I laughed at that- knowing full well that she was technically correct in many ways and also knowing she did not understand the temporal imagery of why I used the term collage. Thus I did not challenge her comment, although I am quite certain that I lost her as a reader. 

We all possess an ability to discern and feel something. We feel the time machine carry us back when we hear an old song. The pull of a photograph that stops time- for just a moment. We remember how we felt at that moment. That's the good stuff.

I remember how it feels. Now I just have to convey it in a way that matters.

Here then is a piece which I have always loved. From a little over 9 years ago.

https://thecivillibertarian.blogspot.com/2014/06/melrose-sunday-collage.html