April 24, 2006
and goodbye
It's time for me to say goodbye to you, my darlings.
Since January of 2002 I've been writing here. It seems like a long time. Four years kind of is a long time, actually. I started reading a few of my old posts. How shocking! I'm much the same as I've ever been.
Old and much-hungered-for posts.
Things have changed a lot in the last year. As much as I'd like to say something profound, meaningful, and impressive about how the world works or about how much I've learned, I can't.
Perhaps that indicates just how much I have learned.
What has prompted this dereliction of verbal affection? Well, last night I found a little tidbit that was a prime candidate to be toasted over the Dotty-blog-fire last night. When I clicked to post something new, I found it had been two long weeks since words had issued from my fingertips.
So, my little geese, it seems to me that I've come to the end of my own personal phenomenon. Dotty is off to pursue new possibilities and watch the changes that are certain to come. All the brilliant wit and fabulous pondering will be funneled into new activities. And likely a lot of the old ones. When I'm famous, or if you're in town, come over for something to eat or drink. We'll talk over the old days, like old people, and talk about how things used to be and how things are and how "the more things change the more they stay the same." Groan. Old people talking.
But!
Then we can make fun of old people. "Hey Granny! Can't drive too good with all that hair puffed up around your head, can you?" And we'll say, "The old days, how the hell can they be the old days when we were young when the days were old? What kind of sense does that make?" And we'll say, "Is there any more gin? I could use a refill...go easy on the tonic."
I'll be seeing you. I won't have it any other way.
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