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Reunion
It looks like there's a trend in this reunion thing to give a brief rundown of your history with MindSay and a snapshot of yourself. Okay...
I've been blogging here since my freshman year of high school. I'm now a sophomore in college, so that's what... about six years. I feel like I've grown up here on MindSay, and with MindSay.
I've gone through a few incarnations since I've been here. I had to delete my original blog towards the end of my freshman year because my mother found it and things weren't so great back then. A made a new one which I had to delete again about a year later for the same reason. Things were better then, but she invaded my privacy and found out things which I would not have wanted her to know. I still feel very sad for having lost those blogs and not saved anything from them, but I have created a lot of new, great memories on this account, which my profile says I've had now since 2005.
I don't think I was ever a hugely popular or well-known member like some of you. Well, I take that back. I probably spent about a year or two a long time ago where I made good posts on a very regular basis and people seemed to enjoy that. I enjoyed it too. A lot. Those were times of great discovery and feeling for me, and I loved to share it with you all and have you there as a sounding board. The people I came across at that time were varied and always interesting. Some have made a big impact on me, some have stuck around for a long time and some have long since moved on, leaving me with some great memories and life lessons that I won't ever forget.
It's making me a bit sad to see so many familiar faces (or, avatars, rather lol) return to my inbox this week. The change this community has experienced took place slowly. Many of you know what change I'm talking about. It took place so slowly, and of course eventually we all noticed it, but because of the ease of it, I guess I never noticed how drastic the change really was. Seeing you all here this week reminds me of the hay-day of MindSay. When there were so many wonderful bloggers flooding my inbox every day I could hardly keep up. When I was so excited to meet new people, and there were so many people to meet - I would go to a favorite blogger's blog and just click on all of their recent visitors to see what new amazing person I might stumble upon. Did any of you ever do that? lol I was always getting comments from new people. There were so many people with so many viewpoints out there, I loved being challenged to grow and expand by many of you. Yes, this place had a great role in how I grew up, in shaping me as a person.
I absolutely loved blogging, and for a while people loved reading my blog. Like I said, it was a time of great discovery and inner searching for me and sharing that all with you was a priceless experience. When I was going through high school there were many bloggers older than me who took it upon themselves to guide me, talk to me, befriend me. That was a time that I really needed all of that. It's hard to look back on some of the best times in my life so far and not see MindSay there.
Nowadays my blog tends to be much more mundane than it was back then, when I made thought-provoking, spiritual or controversial or fun posts all the time. When I noticed that period coming to an end, I tried for a couple years to hold onto it. But that's over now. Sometimes I slip back into that and make some posts that I think are good. But I don't think they're as appreciated anymore since this community has changed.
I dunno where on the web many of those great people are now, but some of you have returned and it's so, so wonderful, and I'm sure the rest are still out there being great and spreading the goodness they shared here elsewhere. Thank you Smurfy for initiating this reunion. It's only Tuesday and it's already been a nice experience. I'm looking forward to the rest of the week. Maybe I'll try to push out one of those old-fashioned posts from so long ago, if I can.
I've been blogging here since my freshman year of high school. I'm now a sophomore in college, so that's what... about six years. I feel like I've grown up here on MindSay, and with MindSay.
I've gone through a few incarnations since I've been here. I had to delete my original blog towards the end of my freshman year because my mother found it and things weren't so great back then. A made a new one which I had to delete again about a year later for the same reason. Things were better then, but she invaded my privacy and found out things which I would not have wanted her to know. I still feel very sad for having lost those blogs and not saved anything from them, but I have created a lot of new, great memories on this account, which my profile says I've had now since 2005.
I don't think I was ever a hugely popular or well-known member like some of you. Well, I take that back. I probably spent about a year or two a long time ago where I made good posts on a very regular basis and people seemed to enjoy that. I enjoyed it too. A lot. Those were times of great discovery and feeling for me, and I loved to share it with you all and have you there as a sounding board. The people I came across at that time were varied and always interesting. Some have made a big impact on me, some have stuck around for a long time and some have long since moved on, leaving me with some great memories and life lessons that I won't ever forget.
It's making me a bit sad to see so many familiar faces (or, avatars, rather lol) return to my inbox this week. The change this community has experienced took place slowly. Many of you know what change I'm talking about. It took place so slowly, and of course eventually we all noticed it, but because of the ease of it, I guess I never noticed how drastic the change really was. Seeing you all here this week reminds me of the hay-day of MindSay. When there were so many wonderful bloggers flooding my inbox every day I could hardly keep up. When I was so excited to meet new people, and there were so many people to meet - I would go to a favorite blogger's blog and just click on all of their recent visitors to see what new amazing person I might stumble upon. Did any of you ever do that? lol I was always getting comments from new people. There were so many people with so many viewpoints out there, I loved being challenged to grow and expand by many of you. Yes, this place had a great role in how I grew up, in shaping me as a person.
I absolutely loved blogging, and for a while people loved reading my blog. Like I said, it was a time of great discovery and inner searching for me and sharing that all with you was a priceless experience. When I was going through high school there were many bloggers older than me who took it upon themselves to guide me, talk to me, befriend me. That was a time that I really needed all of that. It's hard to look back on some of the best times in my life so far and not see MindSay there.
Nowadays my blog tends to be much more mundane than it was back then, when I made thought-provoking, spiritual or controversial or fun posts all the time. When I noticed that period coming to an end, I tried for a couple years to hold onto it. But that's over now. Sometimes I slip back into that and make some posts that I think are good. But I don't think they're as appreciated anymore since this community has changed.
I dunno where on the web many of those great people are now, but some of you have returned and it's so, so wonderful, and I'm sure the rest are still out there being great and spreading the goodness they shared here elsewhere. Thank you Smurfy for initiating this reunion. It's only Tuesday and it's already been a nice experience. I'm looking forward to the rest of the week. Maybe I'll try to push out one of those old-fashioned posts from so long ago, if I can.
Mindsay Reunion Tour, I forsake thee.
Right now, I can't sleep. I don't want to see anyone. I do not intend to go interning tomorrow. I still have the six papers I need to write that i had before. I'm filled with an anxious exhaustion that makes me wonder why I didn't go through with seeing a shrink again. I guess these things surge and recede and then you think you're "pretty normal."
I read an article on "Understanding the Anxious Mind." It's nice to know I'm probably just biologically predisposed to the kind of insanity I deal with. I recognize that I had an adaptive function for the anxiety at some point, not too long ago. How do I replace the current maladaptive formation with an overlay of the previous adaptive one? Or do I need to create a new format?
Additionally: My name is Luke. I write here infrequently, and rarely with this much coherent angst. That's usually saved for LJ. But, what can I say? It was the Mindsay Reunion Tour. I had to post something. If you want to see something different, read back a few entries.
I read an article on "Understanding the Anxious Mind." It's nice to know I'm probably just biologically predisposed to the kind of insanity I deal with. I recognize that I had an adaptive function for the anxiety at some point, not too long ago. How do I replace the current maladaptive formation with an overlay of the previous adaptive one? Or do I need to create a new format?
Additionally: My name is Luke. I write here infrequently, and rarely with this much coherent angst. That's usually saved for LJ. But, what can I say? It was the Mindsay Reunion Tour. I had to post something. If you want to see something different, read back a few entries.
sew all day
Since I blog almost every day...I can't go naming all my posts this week "mindsay reunion'. I've always been here. Well, since 2005.
Last night I was watching the last episode of Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth on netflix, (I'm also reading The Portable Jung edited by Joseph Campbell, and that is how, after seeing The Power of Myth listed on netflix and "Edited by Joseph Campbell" the cover of the book for over 2 weeks I deduced, using the creaking power of my mind, that they were the SAME GUY ;) )
So after the last episode went off and I had my little string of white lights that hang above my curtains on, kind of making my bedroom sparkle, I was looking at this really awful drawing of a tree that I drew and placed on my wall, just b/c I liked the little curlicue limbs I drew on the tree. It's is a drawing of magnificent hideousness that only I would have the nerve to draw and then display on my wall.
But then...I was thinking, if I made the top of the tree higher and moved the sun a bit, that would be a very cool quilt square. And today, that is what I did. Hopefully, since I had to do the pattern and arranging today, within the next couple of days (time allowing), I will have finished a few more squares (because it really won't make sense until I have a few squares sewn together) and I will post a picture. I may even (if you are really really good!) post a pic of the original hideous drawing. But probably not.
Mindsay Reunion? I Guess That Makes Me One Of Those Sorry Ass Kids . . .
who are still visiting the school to see friends and teachers YEARS after graduation, LOL! The shame is that while the people haven't changed, the school is now delapidated and falling apart (as I type on "basic mode" because otherwise I can't post photos on the walls) and the grounds are full of ugly weeds.
Ya know, if the administration doesn't care anymore, why should I? I think that is why many of us no longer hang out here, but go to the malt shop across town. I can't continue to stir debate with the same people I have butted heads with for years, its a waste of time. The jokes are fine, the friendships are true and long-lasting, so I won't abandon it, but there's no longer any new discovery at mindsay.
As for my history here - I came almost exactly 6 years ago shortly after getting out of the hospital where I was treated for a serious case of staph infection. Hmmm, what goes around, comes around, eh?
The early posters that held my attention ran the gamut from JimS and his political commentary, to the truely unique expressions of a couple of high school kids in Knoxville, TN (let's see if I can remember their names - uh, the guy was Luc, very funny, expressive, original in his thoughts - the girl was ... I'm drawing a blank - no, it was Hannah - very valley girl kind of stuff, high school drama, but also very creative in some of the things she posted - I think Luc's family moved to California and she, obviously, graduated, but I'm not sure why she dropped away from mindsay, but it was about a phase in her life I guess, and had nothing to do with the site.
Most of the others, like Jim, are still here - we went through the getting to know you stuff and then settled into on-line friendships - some great stuff - I even had Nomad send me a song for my birthday several years ago and Nomad, if you are reading this, I still remember just how much that made my Mom smile and laugh when I played it for her!
I had a wonderful day and evening with Snuggs. Have yet to meet JimS in person, but am looking forward to it someday - as well as Patchesmom, Sojourner, and just about every one of the people on my friends list.
I'm sorry that I rarely venture out and blurf, as I called it - blog surf, to meet new people, I know I am missing out by keeping to the same, safe clique. But ya know, budget cuts at the school of Mindsay seem to have affected the number of new kids enrolling, and really, its a bit more quiet at that malt shop and easier to drop in and say hi and share news (and photos, and links, and . . .). I walked in the doors of twitter once and never figured out the appeal, not my kind of joint. But I'll keep my FB, its Bruce Brandon Chattanooga if you want to seek me out, and will also stop in here mostly because it is still where a lot of good friends (and teachers) remain.bb.
Ya know, if the administration doesn't care anymore, why should I? I think that is why many of us no longer hang out here, but go to the malt shop across town. I can't continue to stir debate with the same people I have butted heads with for years, its a waste of time. The jokes are fine, the friendships are true and long-lasting, so I won't abandon it, but there's no longer any new discovery at mindsay.
As for my history here - I came almost exactly 6 years ago shortly after getting out of the hospital where I was treated for a serious case of staph infection. Hmmm, what goes around, comes around, eh?
The early posters that held my attention ran the gamut from JimS and his political commentary, to the truely unique expressions of a couple of high school kids in Knoxville, TN (let's see if I can remember their names - uh, the guy was Luc, very funny, expressive, original in his thoughts - the girl was ... I'm drawing a blank - no, it was Hannah - very valley girl kind of stuff, high school drama, but also very creative in some of the things she posted - I think Luc's family moved to California and she, obviously, graduated, but I'm not sure why she dropped away from mindsay, but it was about a phase in her life I guess, and had nothing to do with the site.
Most of the others, like Jim, are still here - we went through the getting to know you stuff and then settled into on-line friendships - some great stuff - I even had Nomad send me a song for my birthday several years ago and Nomad, if you are reading this, I still remember just how much that made my Mom smile and laugh when I played it for her!
I had a wonderful day and evening with Snuggs. Have yet to meet JimS in person, but am looking forward to it someday - as well as Patchesmom, Sojourner, and just about every one of the people on my friends list.
I'm sorry that I rarely venture out and blurf, as I called it - blog surf, to meet new people, I know I am missing out by keeping to the same, safe clique. But ya know, budget cuts at the school of Mindsay seem to have affected the number of new kids enrolling, and really, its a bit more quiet at that malt shop and easier to drop in and say hi and share news (and photos, and links, and . . .). I walked in the doors of twitter once and never figured out the appeal, not my kind of joint. But I'll keep my FB, its Bruce Brandon Chattanooga if you want to seek me out, and will also stop in here mostly because it is still where a lot of good friends (and teachers) remain.bb.
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