I don't like the fonts in here and it won't let me use my century gothic as a default. Vox is no better. Blogging is getting frustrating but the writer in me is crying out for some release or maybe it's the.. well what exactly is the reason we blog? I know most of us think of it as a personal 'online journal,' but given that at times we write about some pretty sensitive stuff wouldn't we just write in a word processing program and keep it hidden? I think there is something in us that wants others to know, to approve, to keep tabs, to keep us in line and to let us know that if they don't like it or do like it.

I think we need some kind of community even if we have one at our fingertips at our homes, work or in the town we live in. What do you think? If that wasn't true then why would we get so upset over the loss of EFX2 again? Not just because we lost our blogs that we put countless hours into, (which are all still there by the way, we just cannot access the main pages), but we also lost the sense of ease and community that we had-like a block party kind of feeling.

For those of you that have never been to a block party, it's where someone on your block has a big BBQ usually and party and everyone on the street or that block is invited. It's a good way to get to know your neighbors and to have some fun. Watch the noise however,,ahem...

So yes, we have all lost that sense, that communication, that cohesiveness. The very fact that we are keeping tabs on each others blogs here at blogspot and at vox and the other random places people have landed shows how much this community means. Most of us here came all the way from Modblog. And now EFX2 has sunken into the blogging ocean as someone put it, and there ya go. Another leader disappears and so does our blogs. I even wrote a (nice) hello to Keith and never even got a reply. I just don't understand people like that.

Well it's not my job to figure them out either. I have enough on my plate. I am grateful for what I do have. I am grateful that every morning I wake up to a beautiful day, the chance to do my yoga in my own grassy yard surrounded by trees, birds and my cats. I am grateful I have a roof over my head, albeit old and falling apart. I am grateful that I can turn on my computer every morning and it works.

If you want to really learn the meaning of gratitude, watch The Pursuit of Happyness with Will Smith and his real son, Jaden. It will really help you to find some gratitude for what you have in your life, be it materially or spiritually.

Like the old song says, All you need is Love....
love and I will add gratitude. Even for a new place to blog..