Blogging is both fun and work. Those of us who do it day in and day out are passionate about it -- whether reporting goings-on about town, cultivating our neighborhoods or discussing "such considerable things as have come to [our] attention" as Benjamin Harris, publisher of America's first newspaper put it in his first 'post' in 1690.
Yesterday I posted a link to the inaugural post of Plainfield's newest blog -- Plainfield Trees -- maintained by Greg Palermo, a member of Plainfield's 10 Cities Tree Committee. Greg is passionate about trees, both as objects of beauty and as necessities in providing shade, cleaning our air and sheltering our homes. We will all be better-informed and better able to support Plainfield's tree needs with his informative words and pictures.
Today, I am pleased to highlight the efforts of Maria Pellum.
Those of you who know Maria personally will wonder how she has time to do all the things she does -- from trying to whip up the Crescent Avenue neighborhood association to Library Park cleanups, to matters affecting our Hispanic population, to showing up -- and participating -- at almost any public meeting.
And she is blogging too!
Maria began The Crescent Times late last year, and I have added her as a permanent link in the daily CLIPS pages.
The Plainfield Plaintalker's Bernice Paglia and I were somewhat puzzled by Maria's cryptic post on Tuesday ("Reinvention in process").
By yesterday she had put up an enlightening post -- that she has been mulling how to do both commentary that is about the NEIGHBORHOOD and expressing opinions that are PERSONAL. And she has made a very sensible decision. Check it out for yourself here.
But Maria deserves a special bouquet today for her newest innovation -- creating a SPANISH version of her English blog as "El tiempo de Crescent".
¡Brava Maria!
¡Y muchas gracias!
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