Remembering Why I Started

I didn't celebrate it.

But I just looked back in my post archives

to see when I first hit the "publish" button

and 

now I remember

why I started.

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Ten years ago this month

I began to share what I know best:

where I live.

Soon however

the four walls

I call home

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began to expand into 

a 

poetic vision

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of merging realities 

with ideas.

Then

something extraordinary happened.

I met you.

Many blogger friends

are gone now

but a friend here in town 

said something

truly remarkable to me today

on my Instagram page:

"Memories 

are 

forever gifts 

that friends give 

to 

each other."

It's been an outstanding

ten years

and though some of you have 

moved on

I remember.