Diaries Past
I was speaking with maggiejean recently about writing diaries, and how we started. As with many folks I lurked for years before overcoming nervousness and jumping in. I wrote Iran discussion, for North Bay, Ca Kossacks. Seven comments, and fairly well received. Coincidentally Reza Aslan was mentioned in the comments in Ojibwa’s Humanism diary this morning.
Then I wrote yearly diaries about “Tipping the room-cleaning staff at Netroots”, then what I think was my best diary ever, Rebels With a Cause, a success story. That was a lot of work. By this time I was getting comfortable writing, so when maggiejean asked me to substitute for one night to do an Overnight News Digest I agreed. So next she said “how about doing it forever?” so I agreed with that as well and here we are. KTK followed a similar path. Remembrance and nomandates said “Do it” and who am I to resist clear orders?
So now I’ve written 909 diaries and made 46,800 comments. It’s hard to shut me up anymore. My count, of course, pales in comparison with Ojibwa’s 4,754 diaries!
We attended the presentation “Stories of the Land: Spring Lake” this morning. We learned that the Pomo Indians were here first…..by 10,000 years! Great weather, water and food resources galore for them. Two hundred years ago the area had a massive number of streams, rivers, and lakes. If they’d left them alone this would be the Venice of America, but they were dammed, covered, re-routed, lined with cement, etc. The main river often flooded, so four dams were built in the 50s as flood protection, which created the gem that became Spring Lake and surrounding park.