Global Village Rendezvous
The World is Getting Smaller
I am unaccustomed to the furor that surrounds the blogging community. Therefore, it took a day or so to wade through mixed messages of misinformation, defamation and the like. Whether it is rants & raves, or positive sentiments, I am reminded,
“Concern that each human being should enjoy the freedom of thought and action conducive to his or her personal growth does not justify devotion to the cult of individualism that so deeply corrupts many areas of contemporary life.”*
Early this morning I woke to an e-mail that was the genesis for this web log. This is a first of an envisioned sporadic number of posts regarding the remnants of an old world order and the glimmerings of hope for the one to be rolled in its stead. As I was saying, this all started this morning…
I awoke to a note in my in box from a friend of many years who had ventured away from her coastal City to the flatlands of the West. It was by her example I followed the path to “blogdom” as today’s post is being written. She had, just yesterday, signed up to this online journal experience and as I read, I began to acquire a taste for writing my own slant on the world. Thus far, it feels a tad bit liberating, yet a seemingly waste of time. After all who would be interested in my drabble.
It began very much like any letter from a friend to a friend, the only difference being the potential to be read by the masses. As I followed her words down the page her wit and dead-honest point of view began shining through…she hasn’t any inhibitions when it comes to something she believes. I guess some things stay with us for as long as we live.
It was nice to hear her experience of the transition from East Coast to Western Culture and how the Maritimes are everywhere. She tells me, “It is a saying out here that Alberta is friendly because half the Albertans are Maritimers“. Many a Bluenoser has made the journey to find a new career and the possibility of expanding their personal prosperity. If mature student status doesn’t work out I may head out myself…one never knows.
There is something about a maritime community; it balances hustle with moderation with a long look of calm recognition to the world beyond its borders. I have been to many towns and cities; big and small; however, the East Coast has the enviable quality of taking the good and the bad on an equal footing not letting either get the best of it. It combines the thriving competition of the downtown core with the neighbourly camaraderie of the one street hometown. If I weren’t from here I’d want to be.
The Global Village and the internet’s ever-expanding sprawl of worldwide computer networks is only the beginning of a unified system of communication that is delivering the world to the our homes, our families and our minds.
If getting your feet wet in the ocean of web logs and info sharing will open your eyes to the world and “let your vision be world-embracing“, then I’m all for it. Blog On!
