Metaphor for Blogging

"...I began, primer-style,
to describe the basic rudiments
of the Quaker belief system:
a commitment to community service,
a shared sense of pacifism and religious tolerance,
and a culture that supports what I, personally,
have always felt to be
a quintessentially democratic form of worship.

As I began to describe Meeting for Worship
—where one sits in silence for some period of time,
in a large room with any number of other congregants,
and where one stands to speak, on virtually any topic,
when moved to do so
— I realized
that this presented a compelling metaphor for blogging."