Blogging Shoes

Every time I blog I feel as though I should be putting on a large, heavy pair of wooden shoes and begin dancing like the puppets in the Sound of Music. Not that "Blogging" and "Clogging" are remotely similar. As a matter of fact the root words can be completely opposite. A blog (shortened form of the original Web log) is a free flowing journal or diary of thoughts and ideas while a clog is an obstruction or hindrance.

However, a clog can also be a heavy, usually wooden-soled shoe, which brings me to my point (I'll bet you didn't think I had one did you?). When ones feet are clogged, so to speak, the urge to dance takes over and you find yourself doing a very poor rendition of Fred Astaire's River Dance (at least that's what happens to my feet when they find themselves in wooden shoes). The feeling is freeing and while your feet may not actually be flowing your mind tells you that they are just so you don't have to admit you look foolish. So it is that "blogging" and "clogging" are similar. Free form from mind to reality, from thought to substance.

When blogging we almost become a different person, our true selves (I say almost because there can still be a chain that binds us to formality). We are freed from the standards and expectations that society, family, friends, religion and a host of other hindrances place upon us. We are free to express ourselves in anyway we want. We are free to let hidden thoughts and feelings transfer themselves from heart and mind to paper. And we are free to do this while others watch as the cloak of anonymity shrouds us (unless or course we post our pictures on our blog). Clogging can instill the same freeing sensations.

I like to say the words blogging, clogging, slogging, flogging and glogging (yes, they are all true words, you can look them up if you think I am being sarcastic). I even like to say frogging, hogging

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