Returning to Blogger after 10 years!

It's exactly 10 years since I used Blogger as a Social Media Platform. In fact I thought the site had been deleted long ago. I am pleased to have found it, complete with the archive from 2006.

From 2014, until recently, I kept a website as well as the normal SM Chanels of:

X (formerly Twitter)

Facebook

Instagram

With the current flavour for small instant Reels - rather than discourses with meaningful interaction - I have retired the website and returned to the old, yet tested, Blogger.

Looking back, I commenced on Blogger in 2006 when I joined the staff at the Cathedral and was licensed as Bishop's Chaplain. My contributions continued through my major car accident and unto my leaving the Diocese in 2014 when I returned to a full-time position in health, establishing my own Practice in 2018.

There is a wealth of old-stuff that I have temporarily disabled until I have a chance to edit and weed-out the dross. There are sermons, reflections/comments, original hymns of mine, along with some fun. I will upload those to a new Archive page.

The layout option here are new and I will be experimenting on the format - hopefully linking back and forth with my social media Channels.

It seems to be the thing in Australia, post Australia Day, everything starts anew.

Blessings for 2024.

Kevin.

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