Number 2000

Sunday March 9, 2003. Post # 1 simply announced the birth of a blog. Eleven days later the Iraq War began. That month I only had five posts. I started slowly.

Since 3/9/03 I have added another 1,999 posts. Today is # 2,000. The last day I missed a post was August 14, 2005.

As I have said before this is exciting for me. The past few weeks with our move to a new city has been a little trying to keep up, but it is a spiritual discipline for me. It forces me to stop and think at least once a day. It makes be look around at my life, the world, situations, or other blogs and find something that strikes my fancy and share it.

There is no question that the world changes around us- and is doing so at a much faster pace than it used to. What has come to be called the "postmodern" world has become a jumble of conflicting, competing, cooperating and compelling differences. We live in one of those cusps of time when everything changes- and nothing is new. We look around us and try to make sense of it all.

As a baby-boomer, I belong to that group that thinks it has invented the world. Yet I have a hunch that we have made some positive contributions and many of us are truly interested in what is happening around us. I guess for me this blog is one of the ways I live that out (along with my work as an addictions counselor!)

So, it has taken me over 1,700 days to get this far. As you can guess from what I have written- it's still fun. So, let's move on. The world is changing and we might be missing something exciting, new- or even old and ancient that is coming back for another run.