blogaversary

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Today my blog is two years old.

This second year has found me finally moved to the country house and settled into country life, the new shop mostly built with economic challenges, karmic lessons, a death experience and the return finally! of my desire to work in the pate de verre technique. I read somewhere that the life of the average blog is two years and though I don't post as frequently as I did that first year, I'm nowhere near finished sorting through the stuff in my head.

I'm not even sure now why I started in the first place. I think it had something to do with wanting more of who I am to pass down through future generations. We've tracked our genealogy back to the late 1500s but mostly all we have is names and nothing about who these ancestors were as people. Or it could have been to give the world at large the benefit of my wisdom hee hee. I keep thinking I will print out my pages and have them bound into book form. hmmm, let's see, two years and counting and have only printed out about the first ten pages, yeah, that's gonna happen.

I never imagined that I would find this community when I started. I had never read blogs before I started one and I had never had any success writing a journal before I started this endeavor either. Now I find myself with friends scattered all over. Some have stuck with me throughout, some have disappeared into the ether of the internet, still on my 'friend' list but absent. Some comment on nearly every post, some only once in awhile and some never but I am grateful for every one of my followers. It is for those who come to share my life with me, for those who still find me interesting even when I think I am not, that I continue.

So on to and through my third year, to my daily activities as I continue this life as an artist, as I muddle through personal relationships, as I ponder the imponderables or rant at the stupidities I see around me.

Here's to my peeps. Everyone of you, my readers and commenters, are important to me and whether I reply to your comments or not, regardless of why I started in the first place, you keep me going. Thank you for the company and for accompanying me on my journey.