I Overlooked the Anniversary

It's been five years since I started this blog. Here's the first, tentative entry:

Sunday, January 7, 2007
Better late than Never
News reports indicate that blogging has peaked, that it is on its decline and only the most dedicated and persevering will continue with it. Well, I'm reminded of Rhett Butler as he left out to defend what was left of the South---a lover of lost causes. I'm starting, and I'm here.

It's a miserable, wet, gray day; yesterday was wonderful, clear blue sky and moderate temperatures. But just as the weather changes, so do the avenues of life we travel down, and this blog will chronicle my avenues, and those trod by the near and dear about me.

Well?

What I set out to do, I sure did.

LOL--and what avenues they have been!!! Lord!

Had someone back then told me what the last five years would hold, I would not have believed them. Oh, not just the perturbations of my life. What about of those about me? My daughters? The Queen? Briggs? The guys where I worked? My family members? The interplay of our collective fabrics with those random acts of others?

And all this played out against a backdrop of a descending Depression, shifting national politics, war, earthquakes, and local perils?

But you know? As sure as I'm typing this, you know full well that your life--and the lives of those about you--have also developed and been challenged during this same time period. You had your own Avenue of Life, whether you're that archaeologist in New Mexico, or the Cajun son in Louisiana, or the young Boston mother of three, or a rugby-playing sort in D.C., or that minister in the mountains of North Carolina, or an aging transplant in Bismark.

You travelled on down that road, and your life today is considerably different from back then.

So it's really true, isn't it? Just as the weather changes, so do the avenues of life we travel down.