The Lost Year

It is almost a year since my last post, a very emotional year. Sometimes dealing with the ups and downs of life requires a little privacy, or in this case a lot of privacy. Hence my blogging has taken a back seat for a while. 

Not that it has been a year without good things. Some of them have been very good. I went on an extended holiday to Queensland with my boys in a mini-van so they could have Christmas with their grandparents. It was very special. It was also a big year for computer purchases with 2 computers for my boys, and an Axiotron Modbook for myself. There has also been the joy of the iPhone and most recently making iPhone videos to upload to YouTube. Over the next few weeks as I get back into making regular diary posts I will intersperse them with posts under the general heading of "The Lost Year" to detail some of the major happenings so we can catch up better.

Recently I returned to Facebook after an absence of several months. It was wonderful to catch up with all my friends. I know that this diary has a good readership so to all of you - it is a good feeling to be back. I love social media and the way it has revolutionized life. 

It is a very strange thing to share so much of my life in this public way in web 2.0 and sometimes it feels odd to be blogging and using social media, but mostly it is a lot of fun. I have friends all over the world who care about what I am doing from time to time. That is a wonderful feeling to have caring friends like that who email me and want to know what is happening, and while I love the way the internet and computers and now the iPhone has changed my role as an artist and the way I make art, it is the ability to connect with people virtually anywhere that is, in the end the most special thing about modern technology.

When I look at old TV shows from the 1960's or read books from earlier times I might appreciate the richness of many things they were doing but I don't envy them. I would feel incredibly isolated not to be able to communicate with the world as we can these days and share artistry with like-minded souls. I can remember a time before the internet and life was comparatively lonely. The number of other bohemians and other free spirits it was possible to share ideas with was always comparatively limited.

So here I am a little older and feeling very emotional. It is like family here on the internet. Sometimes you can be apart for a while, but it feels really good to get together again. I look forward to talking more in coming days.

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