What happens to these people?
Some of them say goodbye to the blogging world, as in the case of the owner of this blog who embarked on her adventure to the Kaivaladhama Institute in August of last year...
Some say they will be "off for a while", her "blogging days coming to an end" as in the case of this blogger whose trip coming up sounds just delicious.
Some say nothing, they just misterioiusly dissapear.... and of course, I cannot find the post I was looking for to link on this.
I guess he might have really dissapeared. It was a blog called something like "Road to Mysore", written by a man who lived on the West Coast,visited Mysore very often, and for years he dreamed of quitting his job and moving to the far east. By the time he finally confessed in the blogshpere that he had done it, he disapeared... I think his name was Joey
I will link if I ever find him again.
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hi Claudia
ReplyDeletei think you may be talking about people who were blogging and also where on the path of becoming authorized teachers. that requires a lot of commitment and it's possible that S. may be concerned about how ashtanga is portrayed. he may not say anything directly, but if he nuances any displeasure, it might be enought for some people to feel they are stepping on toes if they blog. i know of at least one authorized teacher in the west coast that falls in that category.
i lived in the west coast. i don't know who Joey is. i remember Ross was blogging a lot and he spent a long time in Asia and now lives in HK. he only twitters these days. he might know Joey. actually, you will probably find out his whereabouts because the community of practitioners is tight knit.
it is not easy to blog. it takes time and preparation and at times one feels tired if one feels one is repeating one's stories.
cheers,
Arturo
Thanks Arturo, interesting what you say. And I hope I will find Joey somewhere, his blogposts where very interesting as he talked quite a bit about the Mysore life, and I enjoyed it.
ReplyDeleteYES. I have wondered the same thing.
ReplyDeleteIn a sense it happened to me too. I came back and stopped writing posts, just random streams of consciousness that a lot of readers didn't like. :-)
P.S. I never knew Joey but I read his blog too, for years. And... I think I spied him this spring when I was visiting a shala somewhere on the West Coast. So he's still out there...
Hi OvO, sorry I did not see your comment till today!!!, I guess it happens to a lot of people, but in a way you are still with us, while others completely disappear! Oops, and I just noticed that is actually the case with you too... can't find a blog under your profile, unless you moved to wordpress?
ReplyDeleteFunny you spotted Joey, I wish he would blog again...
OK, correction I noticed now that you dont have a blog cause you have upgraded to a website, which I do subscribe to... never mind me... I even commented in the latest post ;-)
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