What’s The Ettiquette on Re-Using Old Posts?

I started this blog at a snail’s pace–a lot of the initial posts had 2 or 3 or maybe 5 views on a very good day and some were completely ignored.  It took me a while to figure out the give and take of community building, and now that I have a nice network of associations, acquaintances, and interactions that I enjoy and look forward to, I’m thinking I’d like to throw that stuff back out at the world.  What’s the protocol here?  Is this something, like my Uncle George used to do before reaching across someone’s plate for the cranberry sauce at Thanksgiving Dinner, “that isn’t done in the best of families?”  For argument’s sake, rest assured I’m going to do it if you don’t stop me–so please advise.

I’m nothing if not a sucker for a theme: