THE DREAM CRUMBLES

"The Dream Crumbles" (ss-3 10-15-19[34]) is a slightly edited version of a very old pic of mine. (Just some minor cropping, and fixing of very small distracting spots.) It's one of the many pix I've re-discovered in the project I just completed last night: going through hundreds and hundreds of paper copies of my old poems, each of which has an accompanying pic. I've kept a list of photos to "print screen" copies of from my dreams&poetry blog as I decided each poem/pic's fate: to file away again, or destroy. Today's was on one of those paper copies whose fate I don't recall at the moment. The title that I just chose reflects the feeling I had a lot doing that "keep or toss" work. So many dreams have come and gone over the many, many years that all that work came out of.

BTW, I don't even really have to keep any paper copies. All are on my blogs and/or computer. But old dogs learn new tricks very slowly, if at all. And I've always backed up electronic systems with paper copies. I've worked with computers since the 1970's and have seen too many computer (and, later, blog) crashes that take everything with them. I could also back up my entire computer (as I used to) to an external hard drive. But that, at this point in my life, feels excessive. Of course, this all begs the question if my work is even worth much care and worry at all. Something I have begun to wonder, more and more. Well, I'll just have to leave that determination to posterity.

Another "BTW" -- I haven't made print copies of my poems/pix in a few years. Cost became prohibitive. So those stacks I was going through were from 2008 to 2014 daily posts, with some sporadic prints after that. And I also haven't ordered any glossy prints of my photos online in a couple years. (Again, cost is prohibitive.) But, here, too, I have stacks and stacks of prints from the days when I could afford to take advantage of every sale the online printer would offer. (Penny prints? Oh, yeah!!) It's that supply from which I pick photos to make birthday cards and such out of. And I can't see this supply running out any time soon.

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‘til next take, may you enjoy life in the ever changing light,





[aka: Patricia Kelly] **** If you wish to copy or use any of my writing or photos, please email me for permission (under “View my complete profile”) ****