Practically-Perfect.net
Today is usually a photoblog from my favourite Flickr user of the week. It isn’t. If you were expecting it, I’m sorry. Today is something just a little different. I stumbled across this blog sometime last week and spent a short while perusing a few of the most recent posts. It seems I came along just at the right time, as there was a bit of a gap between January and June… and there was just the hint of a promise of glorious things to come. I clicked the site into my RSS feed folder and forgot about it until last night, when I was randomly mousing around, trying to find something to put off turning out the light and letting my mind have free reign in the lead-up to sleep.
Practically-Perfect is a sparkling gem amongst the dull stones of technological blogs and geeky gaming diaries that seem to be gradually gaining traction on the slippery slopes of casual blogging. Perhaps I shouldn’t call Practically-perfect a casual blog… the archives date back to August 2005… almost four whole years ago! Although I’m sure there have been gaps and setbacks, Rosanna (the writer) has been writing inspiring, entertaining posts for a long time, and it seems that she just keeps getting better at it! In four years’ time, will I still be blogging? Will I have the time, the energy and the creativity? And will my writing ever develop beyond the random scribblings that emerge from the greenish, stagnant shallows of my mind?
I hope so. In the mean time, check out Rosanna’s writings at Practically-Perfect.
Her posts are thought-provoking and wonderfully worded… she uses words in a way that makes me insanely jealous (and the one thing I am a bit vain about is my writing, on a good day). She points out things that may be blatantly obvious, but somehow you never quite saw them that way. She prods what looks like reality until the stuffing starts to come out, then reshapes it and sews it together in her own design, with near-invisible stitches. And when the world starts unravelling, she patches it up with a few well-placed, clever barbs of humour.
One day, I’ll master that art…
(one day!)