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Funny word, blog.
It's not the type of word you'd envision associating with literature or the arts.
Who'd have thunk 20 years ago, everybody would be blogging it.
Blog, as you would note from my post title, reminds me of the Irish word "bog".
A bog, admittedly a rather odd word in the same vein as blog, is a section of wet spongy ground. Ireland has its share of bogs. Bogs are a natural resource that provides Ireland with "peat". Peat sounds like the boys name "Pete".
It smells delightful and cut into bricks, the fossil fuel has kept many an Irish toe toasty on the cold damp nights for which Erin's green isle is noted. Peat is formed when layers of partially decomposed plants accumulate on top of each other. Peat is cut - into blocks - and dried before burning.
Bogs are also a wonderful medium for perservation. People, books, trees, and even artifacts many many years old - have been found carefully maintained in Irish bogs.
Which brings me back to blogs. What do you think blogs and bogs have in common?
Well, let me enlighten you. Blogs, like bogs, are a wonderful natural resource. Bogs, of course, are an environmental resource. Blogs are a human resource. But both are natural.
Blogs and bogs are both excellent at perservation. Bogs can perserve things. Blogs can perserve ideas and views that are unpublished in the traditional sense, but that might otherwise be forgotten.
In honor of the Irish bogs, let me sing a little piece of an old Irish folksong called "The Rattlin' Bog".
"Hi ho the rattlin' bog and the bog down in the valley-o
Rare ho the rattlin' bog and the bog down in the valley-o
And on the tree there was a bird - rare ho the rattling bird
Bird in the tree and the tree in bog and the bog down in the valley-o"
Blog on!
Loretta
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