Blipper caught in the headlights, says thank you

We have had a great journey together, we have built a loving community. We know Blip is in liquidation, but we don’t know what the future may be. If there is a future, it will be different from the past. Why should we be surprised? Isn’t that always the case in this wild, impermanent, unpredictable life? Isn’t that all the more reason to love each other hard and fast for as long as we can? 

My thanks to the visionary, imaginative, good-hearted Joe Tree, to Gordon Laing for his kind words and fatherly supervision, and to all the “blip boffins.” Blip Central, their smiling faces. This must be very hard for them. The past few months must have been more stressful for them than we ever knew. 

I have now backed up my favorite old blips, including the comments, for it is the comments that most please me--not my images and not my words, but what the community added to them. That’s what I want to save. Not my life, but the community we created together. 

We cared for each other, praised and supported each other, gave each other courage and confidence. We commiserated in our losses and reminded each other that there is no house where death and loss does not enter. We expressed our hearts to each other, celebrated what we love, and reached out to each other in words and images. Daily. For years running. All that is not a function of a website, nor of the exhortation to “Be excellent to each other,” but a function of our own slightly-compulsive, rather literate, deeply compassionate, but flawed and irascible human selves. We grew together, and whatever happens next, we will take into the remainder of our lives the growing we did here. I love us every one.