Response To An Anonymous Post
One of my visitors posted an anonymous comment. Since it was on one of the Solanus Casey posts, I decided not to post it there.
"Lee, do you ever have anything interesting to post here at all? Everything you have been posting lately has been either anti-Obama or poetry. I was expecting some real Catholic news and perspectives on a CATHOLIC blog, but I am not seeing that here anymore."
Hmm. Anything interesting? Since this is a personal blog, what I write is obviously of interest to me. Since I get a few regular visitors, they find enough to keep them interested. But I admit that what interests me and what I write is not everyone's cup of tea.
Hey, I was president of the chess club in high school, and I won a letter for being on the bowling team, so I'm used to my interests not being everyone's!
All I have been posting lately is anti-Obama or poetry?
Let's see, 40 Days for Life, my visit to Detroit and the Father Solanus Center, anagrams, the Secular Franciscan profession ...
I will acknowledge there has been a lot about Obama, but then I am pro-life and his policies are decidedly pro-choice. I do take a step back occasionally to wonder if I have said too much. My last post about Obama, for example, was revised from my original draft to take out things that were too harsh. But if I do cross the line, as I'm sure I have, mea culpa.
But the poetry criticism?
This is a personal blog, and I am a poet and English teacher. I've even had a few poems published. I love to write and read poetry, and that is naturally going to show up on my blog.
Real Catholic news and perspectives on a CATHOLIC blog?
Well, again, it is a personal blog, not a news site.
I write a lot about pro-life issues, and that is decidedly Catholic in perspective.
I also write about Franciscans, prayer, confession, spiritual books, devotions, saints and saints in the making, etc. All from a Catholic point of view.
Anonymous, I hope you will not go away. Continue to comment and offer correction - God knows I need that.
But let me repeat: This a personal blog. I write about what is important to me, and my own struggles to be a better Catholic.
"Lee, do you ever have anything interesting to post here at all? Everything you have been posting lately has been either anti-Obama or poetry. I was expecting some real Catholic news and perspectives on a CATHOLIC blog, but I am not seeing that here anymore."
Hmm. Anything interesting? Since this is a personal blog, what I write is obviously of interest to me. Since I get a few regular visitors, they find enough to keep them interested. But I admit that what interests me and what I write is not everyone's cup of tea.
Hey, I was president of the chess club in high school, and I won a letter for being on the bowling team, so I'm used to my interests not being everyone's!
All I have been posting lately is anti-Obama or poetry?
Let's see, 40 Days for Life, my visit to Detroit and the Father Solanus Center, anagrams, the Secular Franciscan profession ...
I will acknowledge there has been a lot about Obama, but then I am pro-life and his policies are decidedly pro-choice. I do take a step back occasionally to wonder if I have said too much. My last post about Obama, for example, was revised from my original draft to take out things that were too harsh. But if I do cross the line, as I'm sure I have, mea culpa.
But the poetry criticism?
This is a personal blog, and I am a poet and English teacher. I've even had a few poems published. I love to write and read poetry, and that is naturally going to show up on my blog.
Real Catholic news and perspectives on a CATHOLIC blog?
Well, again, it is a personal blog, not a news site.
I write a lot about pro-life issues, and that is decidedly Catholic in perspective.
I also write about Franciscans, prayer, confession, spiritual books, devotions, saints and saints in the making, etc. All from a Catholic point of view.
Anonymous, I hope you will not go away. Continue to comment and offer correction - God knows I need that.
But let me repeat: This a personal blog. I write about what is important to me, and my own struggles to be a better Catholic.
posted by A Secular Franciscan | 10:11 AM
4 Comments:
Free criticism is worth what you paid for it :-)
Or as that famous theologian, Ricky Nelson, said, "You can't please everybody, so you might as well please yourself."
Spoken like a poet!
I'm sorry you had to go through that, Lee. How ridiculous.
I hold my tongue still
Critics can be so puzzling
Stop not the Haiku
Sorry about that. I'll work on it.
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