This blog began about 9 years ago, and amazingly after all that time more than 50,000 hapless viewers have wandered onto this blog. No doubt that some of the views have been mine--I always have to check to see if the blog looks OK after it is published, so say 600 and so of those views are mine.
Still, this is a milestone of some sort, though I doubt that it will deserve a roadside marker. This blog has chronicled victories and defeats, high points and low points and it really is a version of the story of my last 9 years, from Ohio to Washington to Minnesota to Michigan and back to Minnesota. From friends that were and from friends that are no longer. From semi-coherent thoughts to thoughts that, in retrospect, maybe even captured the moment. I recently re-read most of the postings. I cried. I laughed. But mostly I thought, "huh, that is what I was thinking at that point in time..."
I have, no doubt, thought more than I have said over these past years, (thank heavens) but I am also sure that I have said more than I should on some occasions. I apologize for both extremes--I have certainly been cryptic at times, though mostly to protect myself and others. And I have probably written some posts which probably seemed too lightly veiled. Damn. That middle ground is often hard to find, and I do apologize.
Recently I have had to cull and edit my Iphoto and Photo libraries. Even in this version of my laptop I had more than 55,000 photos, and my Mac was at capacity. It groaned if I wanted to save or import anything. If you might imagine, I deleted more than 40,000 photos! What is scary is that I did not hesitate to hit that delete button. Most were duplicates and most were easily replaced if I ever might want, say, a picture of a flower. Ooh. Can you imagine how hard and unlikely that it might be that I would take a photo of a flower? Imagine. The overwhelming feeling was "what a bunch of crap!" It reminds of what Tom Miller, one of the best history profs that I have ever had once said. He said, "most books should be articles, and most articles should be lectures." I suppose the lectures could be blog posts with photos--moments in time, but pretty certainly not worth keeping. So I did hit the delete. Twice, and those of you who have Macs know that what that means.
I have found this blob or blot or blog useful to me. As an introvert, sometimes this is my only public face or my only face in public. Too often I ruminate alone, and this space makes me think (and be) more publicly minded to sometimes all of our cost. But it is important, and I so appreciate the comments from the 11 or so people who might occasionally visit this space. What can I say? Here is to the next 50,000 views!
The flowers? Because I said we should all buy flowers just because since November 9th. I have said that I have been buying and selling cameras like crazy and here is some of the evidence. Five Hasselblads (look them up) have ended up in lap and 8 or so Leicas. I marvel at them and use them, but they are mostly for Ebay fodder to help pay the rent. They do, on occasion, make/take a pretty picture.
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