Just occurred to me that when I began this blog I didn't have much idea what I was going to write about (some might say that nothing's changed), so the first bunch of posts I put up on here were quotes, (mostly from books, some from newspaper reports), that I'd collected over the years, and which I thought were worth sharing. The quotes aspect quickly gave way to writing about a host of different subjects, so much so that whenever I'm asked by some group to tell them what the focus of my blog is, I'm at a loss. It has an arts aspect, but also deals with religion, politics, social issues, and a variety of quirky things that happened to interest me. It's rather like a follow-up to the weekly column I used to write for Dunedin's weekly Star newspaper, back in the 90s. It also had a wide-ranging 'focus.' I was fortunate that the editor of the paper didn't see any problem with me writing about whatever I felt like. I always think that columnists who have to focus on the same topic week after week (or even day after day) have a kind of corner they're stuck in.
Anyway, I was going to say that another blog I write, Workreport.net, started out as having a particular focus: seeking work when I was unemployed. That's what the first bunch of posts covered, and then gradually, when I actually got a job, I moved into writing about that job itself, to some degree. Then, in early 2009, when I was having prostate problems, that's what the column focused on (to the extent that I was planning at one stage to form these posts into an ebook). The blog stuttered along for a while after that, and then found itself revitalised as a...blog for quotes! Full circle. Sort of.
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