A Year of Blogging

Believe it or not, a year has passed since the beginning of Say the Trees Have Ears.  I am very impressed that I am still writing, that I managed to post fairly consistently throughout the year, and that I have not yet run out of things to write about.  If you cannot remember what I wrote in my first post a year ago or if you were not reading my blog then, check it out now.  I laugh when I see that I described my (somewhat obsessive) love for books in the very first paragraph.  Yes, I am a nerd.

To celebrate this important anniversary, I thought I would pick my twelve favourite posts from the last year (one per month) and share them with you.  If you are fairly new to my blog, use this as an opportunity to see what I've been writing and thinking about in the last year.  So here they are:

November 2008: The Cell Phone: Agent of Evil? In which I rant and rave about the evils of that most ubiquitous of modern technological devices, the dreaded cell phone.

December 2008: Tools for the Aspiring Druid: A somewhat irreverent look at "tools" that someone wanting to become a Druid might find useful.  I have always had a particular fondness for this post, but since it was written fairly early in the history of this blog, I suspect that many people may never have read it.

January 2009: On Science and Religion: This post is probably very incomplete and may be more notable for what is left out of it rather than for what is actually written it, but I still rather like it.  (And Isaac Newton, one of the greatest and maddest scientists ever, makes an appearance.)

February 2009: Sitting: My attempts to create a personal meditation practice.

March 2009: Spring Equinox: Thoughts and observations on, surprisingly, the spring equinox.

April 2009: The Promise of Spring: Apparently I had spring fever for a while.  A month later and I'm still going on about how great the season of spring is.

May 2009: Impatience: Frustrations on the path.  This post was notable for the several excellent comments that it received.  It's worth checking out just for that reason.

June 2009: The Path of Truth: A post that raises some interesting questions.  Just what is the value of truth?  Would you be willing to tell the truth if you knew you would die for it?

July 2009: Clearing the Clutter: Sometimes I think the war against clutter is never won...

August 2009: Druidry and the Wonder of Science: With a bit of a bias towards physics.

September 2009: Walking the Path: A meditation on life as a solitary Druid.

October 2009: Hiking: A description of a hike I took while on a weekend field trip.  I particularly like this post, and was disappointed when it did not receive a single comment.

So that's it, a full year of Say the Trees Have Ears.  I hope you check out some of the posts mentioned here, many of which, in my own modest opinion, I think are quite excellent.

Welcome to the second year of Say the Trees Have Ears!