This post may be new today but by tomorrow it will be old. It will be old for most of its life. It will sit in the middle of the rest of the posts. It will linger in the shadows without the benefit of the screen light the latest post enjoys.
This post is old-ready.
The usual blog reader tends to be time poor, with no time to linger, to savour. The form has limits. We cannot curl up with a blog as easily as we can curl up with a book. You never hear, ‘Let’s go for a scroll’.
This post functions as a lure, to entice readers into the back catalogue of posts.
Just like the dog, having chased the kangaroos into the dam is then pulled under the water to drown, so does this post entice the reader to scroll onto the murky waters of the past, to drown. (Just kidding).
While posts tend to sit in chronological order, the newest is afforded the best advantage with the implication being that earlier posts have already been read.
I am reminded of returning to Wamboin to find unread newspapers and how compelling and chock full of absorbing stories they are When they are ‘new’, there is the uncomfortable pressure of gulping them down, to be up to date.
The idea of the old post promotes the benefits and richness of looking backwards that our culture has mostly resisted.
I am so pleased to find you here.