Seldom do I venture into the deep look back, the preference for nostalgia, the idea of recapturing one’s youth – choosing instead to gaze steadfastly and intently forward, to everything that is ahead and to come. Looking back slows the mental momentum required to keep going. Some days, momentum is all I have to muster.
Such was the case the other night as I was beginning the promotional planning for the 20th anniversary of this wacky website next year. I found myself lost in figuring out how to encapsulate two decades of life, and a life often-well-documented. That’s a long stretch of time, and part of me wanted to chuck it all and start completely over, the way I did in the early days of this site.
Now, there are too many archives and memories – and while there was a time when all I needed for memories was to make them, today I need documentation and visual aids to help with keeping them. Looking back is an arduous task sometimes, and we’ve only just begun…
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