The question is: where to start? Looking at it all now there
seems to be a common thread but I’m not so sure it started out that way.
Sometimes I can’t even distinguish between real memories and ones I’ve made up.
It happens like that, someone tells you a story, or you tell it to yourself,
over and over until it springs forth actual color and smells. The same way
people get all jumbled up in your mind. I can’t place them. Not your friends
and family of course, but the people on your periphery, the ones you never
really look straight at. Those are the ones that, if I close my eyes, I can’t
remember the details of their faces, just a general feeling. Dreams work that
way too. If I don’t lie with my eyes shut and mull over them they drift away
somehow. I go to tell someone about it and I’m embarrassed because it made
sense and I remembered a moment ago. So there I guess it does all run together,
even the places. Apartments and hotel rooms can drive you crazy even, because
you go to clean a bathroom or you open up your eyes in the morning and you
could be in any one of the places you’ve lived, or none of them. At least they
have addresses, at least they don’t move and change and trick you like the
others. You don’t have to argue with yourself over whether it really existed.
The structure and layout of the page complements the content of the blog. For example, the format of the blog is one solid paragraph. This paragraph is a very basic format of writing. In some cases, presenting writing in a single solid paragraph can be overwhelming, but I feel that it works quite well in this case. The narrative flows from sentence to sentence and a paragraph break isn’t quite necessary. The simplicity of the content of the paragraph complements the simplicity of the single paragraph.
ReplyDeleteAnother aspect of this blog that contributes to the simplicity is the page layout. The presence of a white background with only the words and the photo on the page further emphasizes the simplicity. The font used, along with the white background, gives a simple layout so that the reader can focus on the words on the page and the photo on the page as well. With the content of the blog discussing thoughts and dreams and memories, leaving a white space as the background was a good idea. The presence of such a blank empty space of white, besides the words and photo, allows the reader to focus in on the main two elements on the page and also make connections with that more easily than a busy page with a lot going on.
The photo on this page includes a simple image of what seems to be a house with trees surrounding it. Even this image goes with the simplicity of the color white, as the color of the house is primarily white. The only bit of color received is the dark brown and green of the color of the trees in the photo. It is the format of this blog and the layout that are thought provoking and allow the reader to explore memories and dreams as the writer does in this post.