Decluttering

Hello you crazy kids!  I’m just here taking pictures of the lunar eclipse and all the usual business that I get up to at the end of most Augusts.

My latest and largest decluttering task has been to go through nearly 20 years of DFLA posts and take the scissors to irrelevant material no longer worthy of being archived.  So far 427 posts have hit the cutting room floor.  That sounds like a lot, but it’s only 20% of the original amount.  In the later years 2020-2016, I only posted a fraction of what I used to, so those years were easy. But in the early years I was posting up a storm.  I’m trying to preserve material that still feels alive to me.  If it doesn’t, or it’s repetitive, I get rid of it.  Not dissimilar to the way I declutter around Moss Cottage.

A glitch in the matrix caused some of the old posts to zip out across the wires and post themselves to subscribers’ inboxes, and for that I apologize.

The blogosphere has rearranged itself and changed in many ways since 2007.  It’s been a pleasure to comb through the old posts and see what was I was writing about way back when.  The comments have also been a poignant treasure trove.  I found this video I posted in 2011 when I got a new computer and had 1500 Photo Booth photos on the old machine I didn’t want to toss.  I made them into a stop-motion video.  This was before smartphones.  My sister and I kept in touch through a constant stream of photos – things I wanted to show her, outfits I modeled, mail art, cocktails, and whatever else caught my eye.   I loved finding my friend Bobi who died in 2023 in this video along with a comment from her.  Made me so happy to see that!

I hope you’re good. My insatiable curiosity hasn’t dimmed in the last 20 years, so you’ll be expected to do your part and let me know your whereabouts and whatabouts.   

Periodically I offer old classes from the archives for FREE for a limited time.  This month (until Sept. 28) you can register for SKETCHBOOKERY.  Enjoy!  The only caveat is that access is entirely self-service. I no longer offer support for registration, lost passwords, login issues, or technical questions. It’s a firm boundary and comes from my desire to keep my days completely free of online class administration.