Bluegrass Country .....
Just got back from what seems like a whirlwind-tour of Louisville & Lexington- Bluegrass Country. We were there for almost a week but in retrospect, it was a few wonderful moments and very near the past, like going back in time.
We ( My Wife & I ) spent some time with Hamilton & Hildegarde, a couple that we went through school with- Junior High, High School & Beyond. We were, for all practical purposes, the class of '64 at J.M. Atherton High School in the Louisville Highlands, the first class to go all the way through in the new campus. Hamilton, his son George, my Wife and I met at Conrad Castle. This time we took the 'tour'.
A few of their dates and facts were wrong, supplied by the family that bought then sold the Castle after my Great-great Grandfather died in 1905, but it was a lovely tour just the same. We split up. Each returning to the neighborhoods where we grew up- In my case it was Bates Court, Hawthorne Hill and Summit Avenue.
Speaking of Convergent Technology
Today's convergent technology is not without it's drawbacks. In some areas content has yet to catch up to capability. For example, even if I'm running OS X v. 10.4.6 with all the software updates and on a dual 2 GHz PowerPC G5 with a 23-inch Cinema HD Display, generally, I can't run at full-screen or even high-resolution. The 'content' simply isn't out there. Most, I repeat, Most content runs at a meager 2 1/2 X 3 1/2 inches. Author's Note: This has improved dramatically over the last year.
Other Spaces .....
It's amazing, but after almost five years ( sixty-seven months to be precise ) of refinement, I've just now really started exploring the world of 'Blogs' ( 'Photo-Blogs', 'MBlogs', Diaries & Journals ). Scratching the surface, so to speak. There is, seemingly, no end to the genre.
You meet such interesting people out here, too. ( Not only have I discovered a vast array, a plethora of 'types' or 'variations', but new and exciting refinements and discoveries such as High End, Three Dimensional Art & Illustration Equally, if not more interesting, stimulating, are the people behind the scenes- The Authors, Producers, and Directors who are moment by moment perfecting their craft.
But, Where do I/You start? The News ? . Or are we better served by looking at some of the excitement ?
Half-A-World Away .....
One of the discoveries I just made was the journalistic nature of some blogs. Sequential, in a backwards kind of way, and very diary-like. Personal and often intimate. Touching. Generally without regard for distance in terms of time and space. And generally, without regard to race, color, creed, nation of origin, social or economic strata, gender, age or physical condition.
This week I've met several new friends in this manner. And this morning I got an email from one. A notification that their blog had been updated.
I couldn't figure it out at first, when I got the link, the eMail message with the 'update'. It said Sunday, and it was Saturday Morning. I began to read, backwards at first, and then I decided to go back in time and read forward. That's one of the things about blogs that is difficult to adjust to, especially when you've become accustomed to near-real-time. I was really touched, by the way, by their references to the way things were in school, elementary ( here in the US ) junior high, and high school mostly as compared to the way things are, become, later .....
The friendship thing, especially.
[ For me, it was Viet Nam- Early Viet Nam. My friends and I were in in the early sixties. It was almost seven years before I got my act together enough to go back to school, to college and things had changed. Now that's an understatement. Things had really changed].
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I have five or six half-brothers and sisters in Australia. I'm vague about the number as I just discovered them a few years ago. It's a really long story that relates to my biological fathers relationship to World War II and Korea. He became part of a fairly sizable wave of American expatriates who ran away to the South Pacific after the war.
Most of them eventually ran smack-dab into all of the things they thought they were avoiding but that's another story, isn't it.
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I diverge.
I was touched. And, I finally figured out the 'day & date' thing. It'll take me some time to get used to this 'journal' style, but I'm moved by it. Touched. Cyberspace can be a very intimate place, afterall.
