In the Future, The Revolution will Be Blogged

Oh wow, is it everybody’s fate to get older and start remembering how things were when they were you like it was some sort of mystic dream? Have you ever wished you could slip back into your twelve year old barefoot self, and just spend one more summer afternoon in the house you grew up in, with all the people there who would also have regressed to their younger selves. I think about that sometimes, especially now that my Dad has passed on.

Of course, I look at my kids and sometimes wish I could just slip back to have one more day with them as babies or toddlers, and I really tend to get like that when I look at old pictures of them when they were soooo cute, and their most pressing problem was balancing on two feet.

But what I’m really thinking about is that time that Stephen King refers to as Camelot. I am a little younger than the prolific writer, but not so young that I don’t “get” his reference. However, I have to wonder if every generation doesn’t see the land of their childhood that way. I grew up middle class, in a small town, while the Vietnam war raged. But I was only a child, and not one of the famous teens or twenty year olds of that era. But still, being a kid, I was probably even more impressionable than the older kids were. All of a sudden, when I emerged as a young adult, we were blasting into the ‘me’ years of the 1980′s. My head was still stuck in the late 60′s somehow. …and of course, that explains A LOT!

But when I listen to my mom talk about her childhood during the depression, and her teen years during world war II, I get the sense that her Camelot existed then. I wish my grandparents were still around, so I could ask them where their Camelot is.

Anyway, the point of my rambling is really my thoughts on Time’s Person Of The Year for 2006. Hey, it’s you! Now I’m a long time blogger, and this is really my latest adventure – and my self-indulgent one. Most of my other blogs are fairly commercial, because, hey – a woman’s got to earn a living - right?

My friends do not understand what I do, but I understand that most of them could benefit from a blog in one way or another. They remain unconvinced. I keep saying, “Hey, YOU are the person of the year!” Somehow my friends and I, who mostly share the same ‘camelot’, don’t really communicate on this. My friends are these wonderful, accomplished people, and I really feel like blogging is a gift I could give them for so many reasons, but this doesn’t seem to be what they want from me.

Only my daughter, motivated by her social circle, has begun her blog. It’s a great one too. I got her started, but she took off. My sons, also, are not interested. Well, if one of you readers are curious about blogging, stay tuned. You can start for free, like most of us did, on a great service like blogger.com!

If you are a fan of The Once and Future King like I am, then you know that Camelot is always hapenning. Maybe you should be there to document it!

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