Users have had a recent email from Typepad, which is the platform that hosts this blog. Typepad has announced that they will be closing business in about one month's time. Thank you for visiting Living Wittily regularly. I have found great fulfilment and fun in writing regularly here since January 2007, and am hoping to continue doing that on another online platform.
(1) I am already looking for a different platform where I will continue to host a blog with the name Living Wittily. When that is confirmed I will provide full information and links here. I have a friend who does this technical stuff for a living and he will work with me to achieve what needs to be done. My computer skills are adequate for what I usually do, providing there are no serious challenges.
(2) I have a month to export the archive content of my blog to a new platform, so that this content can continue to be available In any case there is a great deal of substantial content I would like to keep handy and available for myself, as well as making it available online for whoever finds it useful or helpful.
(3) As we work at setting up the new platform and importing the material from Typepad, I am hoping to refresh the format, though the content will continue to be a mix of book reviews, social and cultural comment, observations light and heavy on life around me, occasional essay length reflections on theology, poetry, art, literature, and a weekly post of daily 'Thought for the Day' (TFTD). The overall aim is to explore what it means in practice, and in thought, to follow faithfully after Jesus, to live wisely and wittily, and to offer a place where there might be some bread for hungry minds and refreshment for tired hearts.
(4) I have no interest at all in this being either commercial or in any sense business oriented. What I write is part of my ministry and service to folk who might find some help, wisdom, encouragement through words and images.
(5) So, assuming success in managing all this I aim to keep Living Wittily going as a voice amongst the voices online. Meantime thank you to all who have encouraged me and followed Living Wittily. It has been, and I hope continues to be, a blessing to write and share with whoever chooses to come by and read.
(6) The current daily statistics are between 100 and 200 visits per day, and I know from various communications that a lot of folk regularly browse through the archives. I aim to keep that ministry going as long as possible, and as long as it remains useful, being an encouraging and informative Christian voice trying to think generously, speak kindly, and write with wisdom and wit!
The sketch is by one of my young friends in Montrose Baptist Church, drawn while I was preaching, and represents easily the best notes anyone has ever taken from any of my sermons!!
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