I realize that I haven’t posted any new material since the beginning of February, and I apologize. I have a whole list of topics that I have been meaning to write about, but with a new baby, a difficult post-delivery recovery for my wife, the worst cold-season we have had, and increased work load, I think an unexpected hiatus from blogging was appropriate. Family needs have to come first.
Yesterday was the first anniversary of my first post on Sixteen Small Stones! I have now blogged here longer than any of my previous blogging endeavors. I offer a big “Thank You” to those of you who are kind enough to read, and especially to those of you who have left feedback, whether as comments on the website or as private email to me.
To celebrate, I have compiled a list of some of my favorite posts from this first year. If you have started reading recently, you may want to check them out:
Neglected Literature: Flatland
The Christmas Tree
Sunset Clauses, Bureacronyms, and the Patriot Act
Garfield Reloaded
La historia peculiar de Orélie Antoine de Tounens
The Great Seal of the United States
A Small Child’s Prayer
The Consistency of the LDS Church’s Position Regarding Legislating Marriage
An LDS Lexicon: Endue, Endow, Endowment
More on Superchastity or Extra-Abstinence
My life never seems to slow down for even a week at a time, and since the week before the election, I have had to take a break from blogging to tend to more substantial concerns. It is tiring, but I like to think that I “can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds’ worth of distance run” as Rudyard Kipling described it in his poem “If.” Even when it is exhausting, I enjoy every minute.
Fear not, I have plenty of of thoughts, themes, and projects churning that will soon find their way out here.
If you have no idea what the “Bloggernacle” is then just skip this post.
When I started blogging again, I told the few friends I chose to tell about sixteen small stones that I continue to have no interest in participating in or being even marginally affiliated with the so-called “Bloggernacle.” Well, I have been reviewing my referrer logs and, to my dismay, I have already been both discovered and linked.
Know then that my feelings about the loose association of LDS blogs that calls itself the “Bloggernacle” have not changed in the slightest and I continue to stand by the words of my final post at the Millennial Star.
Seeing as I have so few readers at this point, I am turning comment moderation off for the time being. Your comments will appear immediately. Please share your thoughts and ideas.
My name is Jonathan Max Wilson. Welcome to my personal weblog: sixteen small stones1 .
Having withdrawn, disillusioned, nearly six months ago from my participation in LDS blogs, I feel it is time for me to begin blogging once again.
