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I thought I’d try an experiment

Martin Kelley — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:35:49 +0000

My life is now such that I don’t have the time to do long-form, thoughtful blogging. When I have time to think about big ideas expressed in well-chosen words, it’s as editor at Friends Journal. I have a rather long commute but it’s broken up with transfers, I often have to stand and I usually don’t have a laptop on me. What I do have is a smart phone, which I use to keep up with Quaker blogs, listen to podcasts and take pictures.

Despite this, I can usually write a few paragraphs at a time. Kept at steadily those could amass into blog posts. But the finishing-up effort is hard. I have a 2/3rds completed post lavishing high praise for +Jon Watts’s new album sitting on my phone but haven’t had the chance to finish, polish and publish. So what if I serialized these? Write a few paragraphs at a time, invite commentary, perhaps even alter things in a bit of crowd-sourcing?

Any feedback I’d get would help keep up my enthusiasm for the topic. This informal post-as-chat was actually the dominant early model for blogs, one that fell away as they became more visible. It’d be nice to get back to that. The medium seems obvious to me: Google+, which allows for extended informal posts. So I’ll try that. These will be beta thoughts-on-electron. If they seem to gell together, I might then polish and publish to QuakerRanter.org, but no promises. This is mostly a way to get some raw ideas out there.

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I gave a talk at Abington Meeting’s First-day school this morning

Martin Kelley — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 21:41:11 +0000

Here’s a few scenes from the meetinghouse and grounds beforehand.

In album Scenes of Abington Meeting (10 photos)

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Trick-or-Treat

Martin Kelley — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:43:29 +0000

Most pics from the area of Grape Street, the unofficial capital of Hammonton Halloween. #blog #family

In album Hammonton Trick-or-Treat 2011 (23 photos)

At home, Francis shows his Happy Clown costume.

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Today was the annual Trick or Treat at Batsto Village, NJ.

Martin Kelley — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 21:32:12 +0000

Today was the annual Trick or Treat at Batsto Village, NJ.

In album Batsto Trick or Treat (12 photos)

In front of the Batsto chicken coop.

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Francis is starting horse-riding lessons: here’s scenes of his first day!

Martin Kelley — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 23:06:46 +0000

Francis is starting horse-riding lessons: here’s scenes of his first day!

In album Francis goes horseriding (9 photos)

Brushing Rosie the horse

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A walk around the Occupy Philly encampment

Martin Kelley — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:15:48 +0000

There’s a different feel since I last visited–it’s quieter and more lived-in. Less a protest and more a small town. Services are organized and there’s less people standing with signs and taking each other’s pictures.

I briefly sat in on the Quaker/Interfaith tent, where a meeting was going. I couldn’t hear much but the main issue of business was how open an interfaith speaker’s series should be. I didn’t have too much time so I quietly slipped off afterwards to take more pictures of Occupy. #blog

In album Occupy Philly, 10/25 lunchtime #occupyphilly (7 photos)

Part of the “Idea Wall”

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Martin Kelley — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 03:29:30 +0000

In album Pumpkin carving (7 photos)

Theo and his pumpkin (large one)

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A few grainy pics from Saturday’s retirement party for Friends Journal’s…

Martin Kelley — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:58:45 +0000

A few grainy pics from Saturday’s retirement party for Friends Journal’s Susan Corson-Finnerty and Bob Dockhorn.

In album Friends Journal dinner Oct 1, 2011 (5 photos)

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