I’ve been thinking…many who read this blog most devotedly are friends and family whose exposure to the world of blogs is really the vast expanse of…this.  Shy about posting publicly, many of you like to talk only in person about what’s here, or email privately.  And that’s completely fine with me!

But I’ve been thinking…maybe you’d enjoy an introduction to blog worlds and cultures beyond this one.  The worlds are vast, each one a network of folks orbiting around overlapping people, topics and/or geographies.  I’m still surfing to find networks of bloggers resembling close to the kind of creature that I am. 

Anyway, here is a sampling of sites that I enjoy reading with some regularity.  I could list more, but I’ll have to leave that for another day.

·        Jen Lemen:  Jen is an extroverted thirty-something with a real gift for talking engagingly, inspiringly, wittily and eloquently about life and faith and family and community.  Her posts are the whole spectrum of heavy to light, and come often – sometimes more than once a day.  My more pensive, quiet self is always amazed by this.

·        Dry Bones Dance:  Christy, the writer of this site, is a woman who’s been around the block a few times – seen corners of our country that many don’t have occasion to see.  She’s worked a lot in urban settings and has a lot to say about issues related to poverty, education, politics and faith.  She’s on a journey of self-discovery, and writes honestly about the struggles associated with that.

·        Real Live Preacher:  Gordon is a part-time pastor and full-time writer.  Many of his posts are full-length essays, some of which come as links to Christian Century, where his stuff is becoming more regularly published.  He has an interesting life story (you can read it by clicking on a link in his sidebar), and is a delightful mix of faith and doubt, gentleness and roughness, patience and impatience, shadow and light.

·        Midtone Blue:  Blue is an anonymous blogger, writing from an open perspective of faith.  In the last many months he has posted only sporadically.  But his archives are well worth browsing through.  Light and hope shine brightly through his work.

Anyway, enjoy!  Welcome to this much more of the blogging world!

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