If you look, you’ll see.
If you listen, you’ll hear.
If you touch, you’ll feel
That’s what I’ve learned since posting here at Docudharma.
buhdy asked me to be a contributing editor to a new blog he was forming. I had heard this story before and never was much interested in joining new blogs.
I had done so once, joined a new blog, that is, after the 2006 election. I had worked on Election Diary Rescue (which I’m doing again this year) and through reading all the stories by Daily Kos diarists of their on the ground experiences, my heart was transformed. I had never read before about individual experiences of grass roots politics from people who weren’t professional writers, or even all that interested in writing as a vehicle for communicating more than information alone.
Anyway, it was a great experience, even though it was a lot of work, and after the ’06 election I was invited to join a blog that would track the progress of our new representatives.
Fresh off the high of EDR, I accepted. I got very involved in the nuts and bolts of government, even started a column entitled “Nuts and Bolts,” wrote about the pros and cons of Nancy Pelosi picking Steny Hoyer or Jack Murtha as her House Majority Leader as well as other subjects I felt dealt with the nuts and bolts of government. Other folks wrote great posts about various Congressional reps.
Well the EDR high wore off, and I think it did for some others as well, because the blog didn’t last, or maybe it has a new name now, I dunno.
So I wasn’t all that excited when buhdy contacted me. For some reason, though, I said yes. I was asked to commit at least to writing one piece a week, an original piece that I wouldn’t post anywhere else. I thought that was a fair agreement.
