Today is my 19th 'blogiversary.'
Can you say cacoethes scribendi?
I've missed only a few days in these nineteen years so it's a good bet I'll be blogging 'for the duration.' Blogging for me is like reading and thinking and meditating and running and hiking and playing chess and breathing and eating and playing the guitar and drinking coffee. It is not something one gives up until forced to. Some of us are just natural-born scribblers. We were always writing, on loose leaf, in notebooks, on the backs of envelopes, in journals daily maintained. Maintaining a weblog is just an electronic extension of all of that.
Except that now I conduct my education in public. This has some disadvantages, but they are vastly outweighed by the advantages. I have met a lot of interesting and stimulating characters via this blog, some in the flesh. You bait your hook and cast it into the vasty deeps of cyberspace and damned if you don't call forth spirits or at least snag some interesting fish. The occasional scum sucker and bottom feeder are no counterargument.
I thank you all for your patronage, sincerely, and I hope my writings are of use not just to me. I have a big fat file of treasured fan mail that more than compensates me for my efforts.
I am proud to have inspired a number of you Internet quill-drivers. Some of you saw my offerings and thought to yourself, "I can do this too, and I can do it better!" And some of you have. I salute you.
I had more to say on on an earlier year's anniversary if you care to look.
I don’t exactly remember in what year I discovered Maverick Philosopher, but it was certainly more than a decade ago, and since then, I have begun each day with it. I could not begin to catalogue the many intellectual and spiritual benefits that I have derived from reading it each day. Thank you, Bill, and happy anniversary!
Way to go Bill! Needless to say, thanks for consistently stimulating, thoughtful and fair blogging. Know yourself 😉 — here are your leading tags:
1 Aphorisms and observations
2 Leftism and political correctness
3 Human predicament
4 Islamism
5 Meta-philosophy
Congratulations, Bill:-) Always a pleasure and an education to read!
Congratulations, Bill. Happy 19th!
You and your blog have helped me to sharpen my thinking. I’m grateful to you and to your search for truth in the vasty deeps. May you have many more blogging years of “promises fair, parties sure,
and induction [and deduction!] full of prosperous hope.”
(Henry IV, Part I, Act III, Scene 1)
https://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=henry4p1&Act=3&Scene=1&Scope=scene
I agree with the above commenters and sincerely appreciate your thought- provoking essays.
Onward into the coming years!
Thank you, friends.
And remember my pledge: Double your money back if not completely satisfied!
Happy 19th — looking forward to the coming years as well.
I have appreciated and enjoyed your blog for well over 10 of those years. I discovered you when I was still living down in Carmel, and that was prior to Oct 2013.
I’m thankful to you for the many ways you have helped me redress an inadequate education.
May you continue to thrive and enjoy many more years.