I think that is also a good description of much of what I do with my blog. I also think of my blogging as, sometimes, building miniatures. It is, at any rate, unlike other writing I do.

My Blog Day is going to involve leaving a few comments. There are so many great blogs, at some point you just have to say these I will read and no more.

Of course, there’s always the danger that blogging may keep you from doing “more serious” work. But for most–for me, anyway–it can offer a way, as you suggest, of keeping in touch with others, especially during periods of isolation.

Blogging also lets a writer probe publicly, rather than in private, certain questions, and, with luck, learn what others may think about the same questions (or, perhaps, different ones).

At its best, it encourages thoughtful communication, a way of building on another writer’s insights and discoveries in order to make new discoveries of one’s own.

Anyway, glad you found “Streams of Silence” worthwhile. I’m grateful to you for taking the trouble to share the posting with your readers.