There´s something strange about making a blog but I guess
everyone has their own motives for ‘publishing’ and mine may actually be pretty
average, normal or mainstream. Doing this, researching, writing for and then
posting up to or uploading my own personal articles at this
blogspot appears to have
become a kind of consolation. Why is it consoling for me, personally? Well,
basically, I have only devoted time to this blog when I have been single with
plenty of time on my hands and my civil status really should be irrelevant to a
kind of exposé on South America! So, what has happened since October 2012?
Well, personally, quite a lot really and that is my excuse for letting the blog
go quiet, not that it ever really got busy in terms of visitors and commentators,
advertisers, etc. Let me assure you that it is certainly not a reflection of
this wonderful continent and purely a result of personal commitments and much
more because of me than anything else.
So, as I am
supposed to direct this webspot, www.suldasemericas.blogspot.com I am pleased
to say that I am now putting it back into action. It´s been far too long since
the series of articles on dance, which culminated in ‘Cumbia’ in October 2012
and far too much has been happening since then. What´s a real bonus is what I
have been lucky enough to learn, how many people I have been lucky enough to
meet and therefore a plethora of ideas that I would like to share through this
blog thingy. Although this posting has no real content of relevance to ‘Finding
the best in South America’, it is like a pre-release or a sample taster of what
is coming back and this time I´d like to integrate more with the articles,
especially with my own photos but also, if possible with more comments and
feedback from a potential ‘audience’ with ‘followers’ and all that!
Whatever, may be of
this, in the longterm I´m pleased it is still up and crawling! And hopefully,
someone or two or a few are there on the planet anywhere, interconnected and
might like to read this. Of course my belief in you, the readers may not be
reciprocal and so the objectives of the blog shall probably never be achieved.
You see, the reason I do this is to give information, to enable learning, to
dispel myth, to break stereotyping, to promote the continent and it´s people,
to advocate for South Americans as a fellow South American and it is in English
because this is one of 5 European languages that have been well established on
this continent for centuries and well, although Spanish and Portuguese are a
lot more useful almost everywhere on this continent, another aim is to attract
more people from further afar to take more interest and to understand South
America more.
Consequently, I
feel a kind of dilemma. Naturally, this should be published in one or both of the
truly representative languages of the continent, namely Portuguese or Spanish.
However, they are not natural to me and although I have considered making this
trilingual, it simply isn´t practical right now.
Ideally, it may become more multilingual in the future, but for the time being
it will continue in English for reasons
of convenience. Nevertheless, I do hope
for more comments and feedback in other languages and it may gradually become
less anglophone as it progresses. Idealistically, this blog can
manoeuvre
towards its home, which of course will be, linguistically, more Iberian and
indigenous with Quechua, Guarani and Aymara.
So, in conclusion,
although this post is not informationally focussed and effectively a personal
statement of intent rather than a research based piece, I thought it was
necessary to recommence in this manner. Please accept my apologies and bear
with me as what I have discovered and learnt since August 2012 shall gradually
be revealed and believe you me, I certainly feel privileged to have experienced
everything I have since then and I think you´ll find it equally fascinating if
you link up to the blogsite regularly enough. Let me close this post, promising
more and better with what is coming up soon. It´ll be worth the wait and although
you may not be there with bated breath, with any luck you´ll appreciate what
appears in the ensuing months. With enough time and inspiration there´ll be
plenty to stimulate your senses as time goes by, . . .