GENERAL COMMENTS:
It all starts with the love of words and the love of music,
not to mention the concept , "Humour is the best medicine"
We realized that we had a lot of material to share with people including funky little poems, computer-art-fabrications, wildlife photos, travel experiences, wordplay discoveries, and the vicissitudes of professional and family life. And our experience on-the-ground suggested that further bursts of productivity (possibly off-putting for the casual reader) might be most likely aimed at a single topic and/or modality, rather than a spectrum.
Give the range of material on our 2000 blogposts, and the frequently cited observation that modern device-oriented audiences have short attention spans, we felt we had two possible models to select in displaying our collected material, e.g. illustrated poems of a single stanza:
1) a daily posting. Although this formulation would allow the appearance of a creative log or diary, it was a bit unrealistic, as collections of photos and wordplay formulations may require some lengthy revisions by the author. Then there are also the routines of daily life, that can interfere with attempting an "assembly-line" of funky ideas.
Fortunately, this modality is rescued by the blog-vehicle's software, which allows reordering and reorganization of the published dates. So with some 'poetic licence' we redistributed globs of posts that form a related group (e.g. letter scrambles, i.e. anagrams. of the book title "A V-E-R-Y S-T-A-B-L-E G-E-N-I-U-S") into a more widely distributed group of "dates for publication". Generally, we had hoped to spread out each such blog-glob, so that the individual instances appeared on D.I.N. once per month, but we only partly succeeded in that effort, as detailed in the summary that follows.
2) a topic-based formulation. This formulation collects for the reader's contemplation a number of short verses, each on a display-slide with photo-illustrations either embedded or in following material. This is the model we reserved for "Edifying Nonsense". Embodying a handful of examples (maximum of 9) -- creations like illustrated limericks, anagrams-maps, palindromes. haiku-type verse -- each blogpost, organized in a measured fashion (four per month) could usefully summarize some of the material displayed in a chaotic or random sequence on D.I.N.
So, it seemed best to reserve these collections as a secondary blog, for those occasions where the reader would like to contemplate a particular topic or modality. (to be honest, there is considerable overlap of created material on the two blogs, but the organization is vastly different). To keep things as simple as possible on Edifying Nonsense, we reduced the number of extraneous elements, e.g. nature-videos, song lyrics and photo-collages, although we have kept these to accompany the related poems in the more lively mix on D.I.N.
MONTHLY ALLOCATION of THEMATIC MATERIAL:
Here are some of the principal themes that have been 'spread out', so that each topic infiltrates a reasonably wide portion of the lifespan of the blog D.I.N., January 2020 to July 20, 2025. (There are occasional deviations from these posting patterns.)
parody song-lyrics (merged with popular and classic tunes)
20th and 30th of each month, Jan '20 to Jul '25; 131 posts.
submitted palindromes (hundreds of wordplay items submitted by avid pseudo-contributors)
25th of each month, Jan '20 to Jul '25; 65 posts.
brief sagas (limericks of 3 or more stanzas)
10th of each month, Jan '20 to Dec '24; 48 posts.
palinku (3-line variant of haiku/senryu consisting entirely of palindromes)
17th of each month, Jul '20 to Dec '24; 54 posts.
portraits of couples (folio-entries)
12th of each month, Dec '20 to Mar '25; 53 posts.
sister-cities' anagrams (US wordplay maps, D-E-M-O-C-R-A-T-S and R-E-P-U-B-L-I-C-A-N-S)
3rd of each month, Jan '20 to Jun '22; 37 posts.
scramble-town anagrams (wordplay-map series for US states, and for eastern Canada)
27th of each month, Jan '20 to Mar '23; 39 posts.
randomly distributed blog-posts:
We have interspersed emanations on other topics amidst the bit of order described above, and we are hopeful that this maneuver, reflecting our current interests (or often just the direction of the breeze), may extend an element of anticipation and surprise for both one-time readers and returning visitors. Such ad hoc additions to the mix include medical- and health-related poems. variants on standard poetic format, news of the day, excursions that we take, observation of local wildlife, foreign travel, cultural activities that we attend, etc. Let us know what you think of the mix!
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