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From the days that had at least 20 in todays and yesterdays columns... Or more importantly since the last time we’ve communicated. We’re too busy caught up in our own to read that someone else can maybe relate. Or maybe we just all speak different languages? But to me it just seems that we give more than we take… which is what makes this place special, because if you can find that anywhere else I want to know about it!
One year my resolution was to be more humble, which didn’t accomplish anything because I was just taking without having anything left to give, yet I often say that people are just too selfish!
But, it doesn’t really have to be one or the other. Because in giving and being understood we’re receiving just as much, or even more, than just taking until ones fill. And sometimes poetry can be a pretty distraction towards something real; it’s just that we often choose the pretty distraction over reality!
The key phrase however is “being understood”… and how can we possibly know when all we do is give? Yes, I think we are all too humble, which I think most of us have learned should be a positive trait. But at the end of the day, I am human, and you are human, and so are they who read what we have wrote! And so have too many relationships ended because one failed to give as much as the other, and neither should we WANT to stop giving OR receiving, because just as surely as it takes a breath to give a breath it takes a response to give one.
So where the hell did everybody go and why aren’t we resuscitating, invigorating or inspiring? I know this place has more to give than this, let’s step it up huh?
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unhinged
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as far as i know, there are several reasons why blather is dead these days.
there are a small group of skites that feel the need to directly and indirectly attack people on a pretty regular basis. judging people and their writing content is a pretty surefire way to kill any positive interactions around here.
several skites have had blather_baby s over the years; i'm sure all the blather moms and dads out there are busy with their little and not so little ones.
more personally, i just don't have the time i used to back in the day when the recent list was a mile long. i work a lot and when i'm not working i'm generally too tired to give or receive much of anything let alone the bullshit that certain people feel the need to fling around here. also, i among others have had a pretty rough year. sometimes i feel like i should just keep things like that to myself. we all have enough shit in our real lives without me giving any more for you to receive, especially since i've been attacked around here for venting.
and i admit, i did my fair share of chasing away this year:
judged
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Poetic_Onslaught
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No shit... blather babies? Insane! I just remember reading about things like blathercon and some kind of scrap book... didn't realize these things were actually carried out! Guess it wasn't really all for nothing it just hit some people harder than others huh!? Hope it's going well for everyone... I can't imagine anyone wanting to avoid or not make time for a place that made it all happen though. Unless... nevermind I'm tired of playing the pessimist! Guess there's no reason to believe a blather relationship should be different than any other though... (maybe just hoped it would or should be)
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Doar
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Consensual thoughts PO.
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(i am not often inspired by what i find here, these days. that is, in part, my own fault. my compulsion to write here has waned, so how can i expect others to be inspiring, either. i will make an effort to be more present. i miss those days.)
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jane
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i just don't write like i used to.
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Death of a Rose
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I try to check on blather every 6 days. I'm not always a success in this endeavour. But upon seeing the emptiness this weekend I was saddened.
Blather should be ageless, words of inspiration. I'm a Blather_addict and it was spilling away from my hands, looking and watching it drain it's life.
Don't let Blather_Die.
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Death of a Rose
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I try to check on blather every 6 days. I'm not always a success in this endeavour. But upon seeing the emptiness this weekend I was saddened.
Blather should be ageless, words of inspiration. I'm a Blather_addict and it was spilling away from my hands, looking and watching it drain it's life.
Don't let Blather_Die.
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eaxdl
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"ageless, words of inspiration..."
Oh man. That's a lofty goal. I mostly just hope I won't run across a painful nugget like the one I just read.
There's something to be said for not remembering.
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silentbob
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permanence because_the_internet
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paste!
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what jane said
blather was a big deal for me. i discovered how far i could channel into a persona. sometimes my whole day would revolve around getting home to be paste! and lose my mind.
i just don't write like i used to
the evolution of blather is lost on me, but i wouldn't mind figuring out some things about myself again and this lucky blue wonderland allowed me to do that once upon a time.
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u24
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I'm just incapable of spending any time here without switching into a strange kind of happysad nostalgic grievance and sorrow for all you friends I never saw.
I fell completely in love with some of you and every time I come back here I smile at first as I remember you, and then I get sadder and sadder as I read through our old conversations and I know that most of you are gone forever and it can never be the same.
blather_makes_me_cry. Or it would, if I could still cry. I'm still cried_out even after all these years. Coming back here just makes me so morose.
I_love_you_all. It's not too strong a word.
I want to hug you all. We wouldn't even have to say a word to each other. I know you already.
Bloody blather. Always does this to me. I have to tear myself away because it's too painful to see my old friends and know that I can't reach you.
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Planet_earth_is_blue
Funny, we have so many more ways to connect to this place, yet we do it less often.
I think with Blather_on_the_fly I may have been the first to blathe from a device that was not a computer, leeching wifi connectivity thru my psp, but now, I have so many venues, I neglect the place where I began to unmask, to be less ashamed or afraid of owning up to the faults and quirks that make me my own unique brand of nutty bastard (or raging asshole... )
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epitome of incomprehensibility
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paste! You are here now too! I am your mediumest fan (5'2'' is maybe on the small side, but give me credit for being less than literal).
My words don't go back to the beginning of blather, just '04, but sometimes I feel nostalgic and/or slightly ashamed of my evil happy-go-lucky wannabe-nerd persona here. From sweet sixteen and never been published (except for a drawing in a school journal) till now, an English major math-tutoring underemployed misnomer. I'm not blather, I realize, but blather is in all of us. Sentimental ambiguity sauce!
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jane
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(my dear Grendel...
i mobile_blather ed back in '06...)
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jane
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and there goes the annoyance of no delete button. we were merely two months off from each other and i had to get all crazy about it. my humblest apologies.
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it's been fun watching people grow up, like jane there
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