Ok, I totally missed the one year anniversary for philomyth.us since my first post was on December 21 and we are just now into January. At the beginning of December, I had already planned to write something, but I figured I had plenty of time and now I’ve slipped right past it. I guess I could blame it on the fact that these past few weeks have been very busy with the holidays and everything, but anyways, here goes some reflection and review:

Reviewing
Now that I have gotten a decent posting rhythm, the next thing to practice is going back on a regular basis to review what I have written so that I can actually learn from the past and not merely throw it up and forget about it. I will try and do this on a quarterly basis and maybe post progress reports from ongoing and/or open topics.

Post Topics
Here is a snapshot of the current tags (captured from archives):

asia biography birthday blogs books bugs christianity church clothes comics crafts design digital economics email family fantasy firefox food friends gaming gear gifts government holidays home jazz life lessons missions movie multimedia music pda prayer seminar shopping themes travel vacation web wine wordpress work

I feel that there is a good mix of different topics which I feel are important to me. I know that some would complain that there’s too much geekspeak on some of the posts, but I guess it’s just part of who I am. I think that I would also like to do more reflection on the events that happen in my life and not simply make journalistic entries, but I am not sure how to best do that since this is still for the most part a public forum…

More Reflection
I feel that I still haven’t figured out how best to use this site to not just show my outward expression but to also help me to gather my thoughts about myself and what is happening around me. It’s very easy for me to slip into just talking about the easy stuff and not digging deeper to look at the “heart issues” (as we are always saying in my men’s group). More than likely this will be an ongoing process of learning, and I guess it would be even limiting to assume this blog to be my sole expression of personal reflection. Conversations are not limited to what I write and read here, but this site is only a scattered representation of my life of which I need to do more to experience in the present (certainly one topic to ponder and work on). And maybe I’ll even write some of it down here.

Feedback & Suggestions
Since part of this blogging exercise is for me to not merely post in a vacuum but to open myself to conversations which are a result of me sharing my thoughts, I really would value comments from those of you that have been reading along, especially from those of you that have already been commenting. What are things that you have found interesting and valuable and what are those which I could have done better.