The Blog as Unfolding Story

“Story is a primary mode of understanding and interpreting experience.  Narrative allows the participants to interpret, order and understand experience.  Narrative is a process of giving otherwise chaotic experience meaning.  Stories are the constitutive elements of identity, and the ongoing process of further becoming oneself involves the continual recreation of the stories that constitute memories and identities.”  Darrell Dobson, Transformative Teaching: Promoting Transformation Through Literature, the Arts, and Jungian Psychology, pg.179.

The organization of the content on a blog can be difficult.  It’s been one of the main challenges for me as I’ve developed my content streams.  I’ve tried many different solutions over the past year and through trial and error I’ve arrived at a current practice that is serving my interests fairly well.

While many make use of the category function on their blog in a different way, I’ve divided my content into three distinct streams: @ccseed, AziMuth, and the Sand Box.  (Fresh Paint, no longer active here, developed into its own blog.  The Reservoir Podcast is a recently launched category experiment).

In @ccseed I tell the story of my experience interacting with social media and the new tech from a rural location .  In AziMuth the unfolding story focuses on my engagement with the arts, literature and Jungian psychology and in the Sand Box I detail experiences of parenting from an imaginal perspective.

Each tells a part of my story.  I’m a social media participant.  I’m a candidate just beginning training to become a Jungian analyst.  I’m a parent.  The value of these category distinctions is that they provide focus.  This helps when I set myself to generating more content and I sense it helps those following along here to sort through what’s being presented.