Gone

My daughter's Tumblr has disappeared from cyberspace. She didn't mention it when I was talking to her an hour or so ago, so I don't know whether she's deleted it herself, or whether Tumblr have taken offence at something she's posted and nuked it. Her blog's demise seems to underline something I've been thinking about this afternoon and evening - I've been looking back through some of the early comments people left on my blog, going back to its first, 'Semicentennial', incarnation. Comments left by people, and about people, who are no longer around in Blogland, for various reasons. It's only two and a half years ago, but it almost seems like a whole different life, in some ways. It was all new to me then, and there seemed, at least with some people, to be a genuine sense of connection, of something greater than the sum of its parts, but that feeling began to wane, abruptly, with the realisation that one particular blog, rather central to 'our' corner of cyberspace, wasn't what it purported to be. 'Firsts' always tend to stick in the memory, for obvious reasons, I suppose - first love, first heartbreak....first betrayal. It's not the same now. Much that was worthwhile doesn't appear to me to be present anymore. Gone. But not forgotten.

Love & best wishes to all
Sammy B