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There is a time for everything, a season for every activity under heaven:<\/p>\n

…a time to be silent, and a time to speak.<\/p>\n

Ecclesiastes 3, v.1 and v.7<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Two years ago yesterday, I launched out onto the “bloggy cybersea.”<\/a> Somehow I managed to survive the use of that horrible turn of phrase and go on to write 526 other posts in 64 categories which generated 4,195 comments. Some of those comments came from me, a good deal of them from pesky spammers hawking everything from cheap, cheesy porn to counterfeit Nike shoes (those have been fried for the most part by my Super-Duper Askimet Spam Zapper and don’t figure into the total count), but most came from the likes of you, my beloved Fusioneers, whom I have come to appreciate very much. I’m honored that people have actually found something they deem worth reading here and have hung around these past two years.<\/p>\n

Yet, I feel a little like Forrest Gump this morning (so what else is new, you ask?). You remember, that scene where he has been running all the over the country, his entourage tagging along, and suddenly he stops in the middle of the road and says, “I think I’ll go home now.”<\/p>\n

Well, that’s me. I think I’ll stop blogging now–at least for a while.<\/p>\n

I’ve been thinking about taking a sabbatical for a long time, and it just seems right to kick it off on my second blogiversary. Blogging has, in the immortal words of Chico Escuela<\/a>, “been berry, berry good to me.” I’ve been able to have a lot of fun, hone my skills as a writer and make a lot of new friends. I’ve also benefited from having my worldview enlarged and enhanced by the words of others. More than anything, I have realized that, as weird as I am at times, I am not alone.<\/p>\n

But I have been feeling the weight of this thing for some time now, and I would like to go persona non bloggus<\/em> for a while just to see what’s it’s like. Sometimes, I feel like I’ve created a monster in Ocular Fusion<\/em>, one that demands daily feeding. As good as blogging can be, there are always the ever-present dangers of getting hooked on success, enamored with The Numbers (which, of course, must always go up, uP, UP!) and addicted to affirmation and praise. I suppose that I’ll suffer the ignominy of watching my Techonorati and StatCounter numbers drop if I take some time off, but as a good friend of mine said recently after taking a blogging sabbatical himself, “It is the kind of wound that liberates.”<\/p>\n

And sometimes I just get plain weary of hearing my own voice. I want to spend some time catching up on my reading, resting and reflecting. Solitude and silence can be good for the soul. And part of being able to say something significant is taking the time to listen to what others have said and are saying.<\/p>\n

But I don’t plan to stop writing. I enjoy it, and on a good day I feel that I do a half-way decent job of it. I am currently exploring some other writing opportunities and venues, and if something happens in that regard, you’ll be the first to know. And I do plan to return here and write some more, I just don’t know when that’ll be. But I think I’ll know it when I feel it.<\/p>\n

Persona non bloggus<\/em>–it has a nice ring. But I don’t plan to get too used to it, and neither should you.<\/p>\n

Blessings and Peace to all whose eyes fall upon these words.\n<\/p>\n

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