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By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:24:23 +0000

You return! Excellent!

By: Root

Root — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:11:13 +0000

No matter.
Its been a fantastic blog, a great experience and a beautiful ride.
And your new blog will still get the odd reader I would think.
Been a bit busy err working recently. :)

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By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:15:36 +0000

Thanks Donna :)

And I did actually edit the link in :)

By: Donna

Donna — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:43:38 +0000

Hi just surfed in and read your last post…Seems you have gone above and beyond in your committment to your journal writting. Chances are sometimes you reach a point were very plain and simple…albeit functional, as in my case is what is desired.

You have to mold your space to fit your own needs,and moods… you are answerable to you, alone, and it is you who will determine when change is warrented. Perhaps you want color, style, whatever it is that you seek, hope you sort it out and are happy with it, hope you continue to write and share. Hope you never feel an obligation to answer to the kindly soul who thinks you are trying to “reinvent” yourself…lol.

By: Gabriel...

Gabriel... — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:08:37 +0000

Funny… I just hit Post 100 and looking back I can see a definite pattern, I can see how I’ve moved through examining what this disease I’ve got is, to my recovery to how those of us with the disease can help each other… and so on. I’ve tried, over the past year, to keep Things separate… Recovery on one blog, hobby on another and fun stuff on a third. I’ve never been able to combine them into one blog, but keeping them separate has meant abandoning two of them to concentrate on the other.

Dude, whatever you do, wherever you end up, I hope the writing helps.

By: cjp

cjp — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:09:53 +0000

Good luck, I think you have done the right thing. A couple of quotes came to me as I was reading this.

“To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally, one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one’s mind and the psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.”
~Anais Nin

And one of my favourites:

“Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own.”
~Bruce Lee

I think once you reach certain points in life, in order to move forward you have to let go of those things that are no longer relevant or are capable of un-usefully clouding your mind to a point where they weigh you down, and burden you when trying to move forward in new directions. Be they possession’s, habits, pre-coneceptions, or people - sometimes we have to let go in order to take hold of something else. As an old zen proverb says “you must empty your cup, before you can fill it up.”.

That was unusually philosophical of me. I hope to see you back elsewhere soon!

By: Kaf

Kaf — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 05:20:08 +0000

Your anger has waned?! I don’t know you any more, man…

By: Cyndy

Cyndy — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:44:50 +0000

I’m late, as always, in replying.

But anyway…I’ve done the same thing with my own site. I think everyone goes through this kind of thing at some point with some aspect of his life - if not more. It’s just normal change, evolution if you will. Anyone who doesn’t respect that of you, is only misguided in themselves.

By: pcg

pcg — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:40:26 +0000

amazing, exactly the same with me. registered my domain and and had my site in its current form since feb 2004 and i look back in wonder. everything has changed, my style of writing, what I write about and there were periods where I never wrote anything. i too am debating what to do with the site, its like a stream of thoughts which leads in different directions…best wishes with whatever you do.