The In-Between Things Blog-versary, Day 3

Today is The In-Between Things day 3 blog-versary extravaganza! It’s been a year of Arts & Entertainment Wednesday! I feel like I’m still trying to figure out what I’m doing, but I also feel like it has been a very edifying experience and am looking forward to discovering what year two has in store.

A few numbers to make things seem important:

1 person
4 categories
52 weeks
145 posts

In celebration, I decided that this week we would take a look back at the past year by highlighting five favorite posts for each category.

I was sure that it would be simple to skim through and pick my faves. Not so fast my friend! Wow, there is a lot there. I also noticed formatting issues and little typos on pretty much every post (thank you for tolerating my imperfections). Other than the corrections, there weren’t really any posts that stood out to me. On the plus side, I guess that means that the writing is at least of a consistent quality (for better or worse). On the minus side, it made it challenging to pick out a few posts in each category to highlight, so I’ve tried to go with just a range of topics. I’ve re-opened the comments on these posts, please let me know what you think of them. And if your favorite posts weren’t highlighted, please leave a comment here about which one(s) you feel were overlooked.

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My interest in creating a blog at all and in having one day dedicated to Arts & Entertainment specifically came out of driving home from the ballet one night with my mom and sister. I just really wanted to talk about art more. This would be my outlet. The challenge is that I am not big on arts criticism and didn’t want to resort to the sort of reviews that you see in various publications. To me it seems that critics tend to pile their expectations on the work, often with an agenda intended to make the work less, not more accessible. I’m still working on finding an effective style when it comes to my reviews. Mixing in posts about other sorts of artistic activities helps keep it fun.

RBG

This was the first post where I touched on the subject of feminism and even though RBG is unquestionably fierce, I was nervous. It is something that I feel very strongly about, I just hadn’t felt comfortable in expressing myself. Since this post, I’ve gained some confidence in handling the subject, but this was my first, tentative step.

Don Quixote

My first foray into dance criticism.

Merce Cunningham

What a fascinating person! I admire his virtuosity and his unique creative process immensely.

One Inch of Art for a Week

This was a fun project. For me, the best thing about it was the scale. I would have felt overwhelmed with trying to create even just a one page-sized piece of art once, much less every day for a week. I also liked the weirdness of the medium. I might like to try this project again … I wonder what I would do differently and what I would wind up with. Want to play along?

The Tour de France

This is something that has fascinated me for years. Sport as a metaphor may be something worth revisiting.

I was listening to a podcast on my walk the other day and it opened with this quote:

“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself…”
– Carl Jung

It struck me that this is what I was feeling when I decided to start this blog. I was looking for an outlet to communicate. And even though writing is a solitary endeavor, I do feel more connected by having this outlet to explore different things and share my thoughts.

Thank you for reading.

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