As I begin this journal I would first like to offer an explanation of why I chose the Blog as my medium. My first experience with this sort of academically minded blogging came from the Children and Literature class taught by Dr. Sexson. At first this required blogging seemed to be somewhat boring, difficult to comprehend, and oppressive. However, as the semester went on, I really got more into the hang of it. By the end I felt as though I had moved out of the realm of "Novice blogger" into something a little more advanced. Then, this past summer, I really began to understand and comprehend the benefits of the blogging medium. Because of my flexible job I had a lot of time to read and consider my readings. To avoid being "dry" and not writing all summer I started a literature blog to compose and publish my various thoughts on the literature I had been reading.
It seems in funny contrast to be writing a Blog about the transcendentalists, mainly because of their focus on Nature and computers and the internet seem about the furthest thing from natural. Had I wanted to compose a faithful text of
Transcendentalism I feel that I would have made a paper journal-- a yellowy paged work, with torn and frayed edges, composed in black ink, bound with sinewy leather straps and smelling of stove-fire smoke. Well, I didn't want to do that. Although it would be "cool" to do, I wouldn't get the same scholarship as a blog gives (funny enough). I believe that part of learning is looking at vast quantities of information that would, disregarding the internet, be lost to my compositions. So despite this seeming contradiction between transcendental journals and computer blogs I plan on composing a blog to record my thoughts, good and bad, deep and shallow, transcendental and not, on to this web site. To fall into the theme of the day, this combination of styles could be considered and "experiment". I figure that I too can contain multitudes, and displaying those multitudes on a blog is an alright move to make.
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