What Happens Next?

If a blogger stops blogging
Or ceases to be,
Will the blog still live on
Through eternity?

Cyberspace still boggles my mind. All those pages and pages of stuff — words, images, music — somewhere in time and space, but physically untouchable, untactile, unreal in a sense.

Without a computer connection, you have no access to all that stuff that you know exists somewhere in space and time. What a weird library. What a weird way to journal, for everybody with a computer to read.

What a weird way to communicate with...you don't even know who!

To me it feels more like essay or memoir writing, rather than a diary or journal. Who the hell wants to know what I had for breakfast?

Then again, who the hell even wants to know what anybody else thinks about anything? There's certainly a human need to communicate, though, even if you don't know who — or whether anyone — may be reading/listening. I guess that's what drives cyberspace interactions.

Once upon a time, people talked face to face, not Facebook to Facebook. I miss those days. And I feel like I'm going to be forever boggled.

The Missing Year

And so this is Christmas
And what have you done?
Another year over
And a new one just begun.

From "Happy Christmas" by John Lennon

Have you ever had one of those years where you look back and ask, "Where the hell did THAT go?" That was 2010 for me. Yes, it happened, and yes, I remember it. I worked hard; stuff happened; I remember it all. But there's something about it that leaves me feeling it's MIA.

What have you done? What did you do? Or is the real question: What did you accomplish?

And what is accomplishment; success; indeed, time? It's different for all of us...the trick is figuring it out for ourselves.

That takes time, and it changes over time, and time is on your side.

Happy Christmas! And happier New Year.