Graffiti

This story has been taken down for an overhaul.

Thanks to all who read and commented. Your kind words and advice have inspired me to rewrite parts, and this piece has been published on Out of Ruins where it fits in nicely.

Thanks again.

World Peace Day

Wouldn't it be great if there were no news items posted anywhere or reported on television about any sort of discrepancy, disagreement, fighting, arguing, or criminal activity? What a boring news program, and what a treat to our overtaxed psyches. I'm keeping my fingers crossed, well, not at the moment while I'm typing, that everyone everywhere takes the theme of the day to heart and tries to help someone somewhere who may need it.

I am a Hoarder

In going through my mail today, I found a notice from A&E Insider News about a show they have called Hoarders. I haven't watched it, and after realizing my own situation, I'm kind of afraid to see myself in one of the episodes.

Reading Wikipedia's take on the situation was enough for me to see and say, yes, I am a bibliomaniac and a digital hoarder, and yes, I am the child of a traditional hoarder.

There is help all over the place including YouTube, but it is hard to admit to oneself that something needs to be done, and the only way to do it, is to get off your duff and take action.

Starting out on the right foot

Sondra Harris, who has been maintaining an online diary called The Ministry of Silly Walks since November 2001, and whom I found out about through Rob McEvily's searching through the archives at his Six Sentences, began the whole thing in exactly the right frame of mind for an unknown blogger. I wish I had approached this with the same sense of deliberation.