So, apparently this is my 600th blog entry.

Yikes. That’s a whompin’ load ‘o writing.

My blog’s title, of course, is a riff on the old EF Hutton ads that ran during the 70s and 80s. If you watched TV back then, you couldn’t help but see these ubiquitous commercials. Here’s one version…

They repeated that gag so many times, I’m sure it eventually got stale, even for them.

So, “When EF Talks…” became my blog’s name.

Blog writer will tell you that one of the tricky parts is never really knowing just how many folks are “listening,” if any.

Despite stats that show thousands of reads on certain entries –and hundreds of thousands all time– you never really know just who’s out there on the other side of those internet tubes, and whether or not they are “listening.”

You publish some entries, thinking, “Oh man…THIS one will be great…” 
And when you check back later, almost nobody’s read/commented at all.

Other times, I’ll offhandedly post something, only to find it starts a firestorm of comment and debate.
Go figure.

So, it leaves you to wonder who’s really out there, and what they’re really thinking.

But, more and more each passing year, folks come up to me in public to tell me they do listen.
They tell me the love what I post on Facebook, or what I’m writing here.
Some even tell me that it helps them cope with their life a little better.

Those in-person comments help make all the time time spent in this digital world worthwhile.

So, thanks for them.

The subtitle of the blog is “Spirituality. Music. Politics. Life.”

I intentionally chose to list those four things because I didn’t want anybody to be surprised to see any of that here. Some blogs are “Spiritual.” Some are “Political.” Some are “Musical,” etc.

This one hops around all over the place, depending upon the day. That makes it a lot like my life. So, welcome to my world, I suppose.

There’s a lot of really great entries back in the archives here. If you click my little picture to the right, it will pop up the “Categories” menu, and you can peruse them yourself.

One of the best places to start might be the “Favorite Entries” category. Blogs end up in that category either because a) they’ve gotten a lot of reads, or b) I personally want them to be highlighted.

It’s a good cross-section of the writing in all the areas of this blog. And if you’re looking for a quick-and-dirty retrospective, this would be the place.

Thanks again for all the reads, comments, and support through the years.

Eric