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Hello Again!

I just wanted to take a moment to say hi!  I haven’t been very active around here these last few months, but I’m trying to get back into the bloggy swing of things. I’m feeling better since I wrote this and this, but getting back to normal is always a slow process.  But I really miss you guys.

I want to apologize for my slow responses to comments, too. I’m usually fairly prompt, and frankly, if you take the time to do me the honor of commenting here, then you deserve to be acknowledged. I haven’t let myself completely clam up and hibernate, but that is the major urge during these down swings. I put things off and detach quite a bit. I’ve made strides not to let that happen in the “real” world, but it’s much easier to let it happen with my cyber friends. I can only say that I’m sorry.

Moving forward…

I’m still on with my resolutions this year, with a little better planning. We’ll see how that goes.

And I got a cat a couple of weekends ago. She’s sweet and getting used to me and Louis. She doesn’t have a name, but I keep calling her Kitty. Seems like a lazy name to give a cat, but I’m beginning to think she’s gonna be stuck with it.  Poor Kitty.

It’s snowing at my house tonight, for the first time this winter.  Louis and I went out for a bit, but it was a slushy, super fat, wet flakes kind of snow so we didn’t last long out there.  Here are a few pictures:

The first snow! But it's more like really thick rain than snow.

The first snow! But it’s more like really thick rain than snow.

Who me? No thanks, I'm just fine where I am.

Who me? No thanks, I’m just fine where I am.

My new kitty...who I've been calling Kitty.

My new kitty, who I’ve been calling…um…Kitty.

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Memories Old and New

As I was cleaning this weekend, I took a good long look at the picture frames sprinkled around my house.  Every now and then I take particular notice of them, but most of the time they blend in to the surround sound of visual white noise.

What I thought about is how old the pictures are and why I bother to keep them on display.  Why keep them up if I don’t pay attention to them? Why, with all of the wonderful new memories I have, with the thousands of photos I take every year, do I continue to display old ones?

Am I clinging to the past or celebrating it?

I have a tendency toward infusing objects with my emotions. Or perhaps confusing objects with emotion. To put away a photo can feel like a statement that the experience it documents doesn’t matter, as though I’m saying that time in my life, that person, that memory has no value to me. Throwing or giving away sentimental items is even harder. 

I’ve been working on that these last two years, with great results, but I don’t think it’s a part of me that will ever really change.

It does get easier.  This time I kept some and took some down.  I definitely want to highlight new memories, but there are a few old times that I’m not yet ready to let out of my sight.

And that’s okay.

Items of Interest:

How do you know when it’s time to let go?

Why do I hold on to things?

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A Year In Narnia – no. 1

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Narnia 1

Year of Quotes No. 49

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