Reading Bess today and seeing her say what I was thinking before I could say it made me realize another reason I blog - the chances to plug into the Overmind. It happens randomly but when it does it's so cool. I was SO identifying with her story of her journals, how she was still writing about the same emotional things in her 30s as she was as a kid, and now she doesn't need/want to write about that anymore. Wow, did that ever strike a chord. I don't think I'd want anybody to read a blog I'd have written at 25. I'm really different now.

But it's these moments where you read something on a blog and think "that person and I are on the same page" that make blogging special. It's a feeling I really enjoy. I love it wherever it happens.
At work we have an Overmind going on one case. Usually the Overmind is just me and the Boss, and that one is longstanding and natural to us by now, but on this one we have another guy who is on our wavelength. The three of us tend to hit the same conclusions and head in the same direction at the same time, either it's me and outside guy, or boss and outside guy, or boss and me, but often it's the three of us together doing the same thing at the same time, which is hilarious but inefficient.

So since they are lawyers and I am the paralegal, the one wired for practicality, I'm learning to direct traffic in the Overmind, and check to see if the other parts of the brain have already formulated a response, and assign the task to one part of the brain or another. This came about because this week one of the lawyers had a really Bad Mail Day, when both Boss and Outside Guy sent remarkably similar shitty letters on related but not identical topics to the same lawyer on the same day. We howled when we saw what had happened, but the fact remains -we need to get our shit[ty letters] together. OTOH, there is real value in giving the other lawyer a really bad mail day every now and then....

So today something else came up and I ranted about it and Boss told me to write the appropriate shitty letter and I said we better check with outside guy, because knowing him he may have already written it. He hadn't, so I will.

Anyway, I think that's part of why blogging is fun for me - sometimes we as a group get on a roll on a topic, and it passes from blog to blog and people share their opinions and creative energy is born, separated by time and space but sharing this little bit of the Blog Overmind. It's fun. And as I think about it, that's probably one of the main reasons I blog. Left to my own devices I am as creative as a kitchen sponge (I will eventually grow something but it's probably not worth saving). But when in touch with other creative minds, something happens and I am more productive. And that, in a nutshell, is why I blog. Thank you for helping me formulate it.