I started another blog about a month ago, but kept it under my hat until I had a name for it. The name came this week: a gnarled oak.
It’s from this haiku I wrote last week:
I watched and listened—
a gnarled oak full of stories,
birds turned into words
a gnarled oak is a microblog where I’ll be posting short observational poem-like things mostly about birds and nature.
This started from my experiments with Twitter (you can follow me on Twitter where the gnarled oak stuff is automatically be cross-posted). The notion of posting every moment of one’s life is kind of silly so I just twittered short little poem-things and haiku. I discovered there are a lot of people who do this. Many quite well. I wanted a more personal and simpler space for these besides Twitter, and I discovered Tumblr, a microblogging platform that works nicely for this.
The things I post there are the things that often got written and lost in my paper journals, but after being inspired by a small stone, a handful of stones, The Morning Porch, TWITTERKU, Open Micro, Paiku, Haiku Habits, Full Moon of November, Oversouled and numerous others whose RSS feeds and tweets I’ve been enjoying, I decided to have a go at this style of blogging. Many of these sites are powered by Tumblr and that’s how I found it, so thanks to all of those for inspiring me.
Coyote Mercury is still my main joint, but you’ll find these other bits of writing that seem too small for a “full-size” blog laid out for large images at a gnarled oak where they won’t be overwhelmed and can kind of live by themselves in a simpler region of the blogosphere that lacks sidebars, comments, spam, and upgrades.
Check out a gnarled oak and have a look around. There’s even an rss feed for those who use readers.
James Brush is a teacher and writer who lives in Austin, TX. He tries to get outside as much as possible.
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