Evendays

I just finished writing and sending out our email ministry newsletter. I find this a difficult task and it often gets put off a week or two or three until it becomes abscessed and then it has to be pulled, I mean written up, before people think we’re dead.

We used to send everything by regular post, then email and post. Now it’s just email. When Randy and Sandra encouraged me to blog, this became a primary way of keeping people up to date, but it’s not a habit for all supporters to automatically surf over to Evendays. I understand.

One day, blogs won’t fill the gap either. Both Wife and Daughter are on Facebook now, which explains the current financial recession in the USA. Facebook, at least when you start it, is a FULL TIME JOB.

I’m not saying Facebook is not worth it. Wife has had contact with people she loves dearly but had heard from only twice this millineum. She and Daughter compare who has whom as friends (Daughter has more) and then talk about writing on someone’s wall or getting or sending tickles or pokes (or something).

For now, I’ll stick to 2 hours a week on blogs.

Eulogy, eublogy. Good word, good blog.

(Organ music…)

Today, we’ve come here to honor that cherished blog, Ocular Fusion. (No, you’re not in the wrong place. Come on in… Take off your hat. Respect, and all that…) He breathed his last and passed into cyberspace on October 8, 2007 after a short, event-filled two years.

I first met the departed blog through comments left on a popular site. I visited his place, laughed and cried, left a comment. He replied.

I was hooked.

We will miss his shots on goal, his diatribes on the Tide and Notre Dame (he’s been strangely silent on that one…), his glimpses into the human eye and his stories of Eyegal and the 3 Eyegarçons, his runs in the morning and his walk with Jesus.

He elevated the bar for the daily post. Dedicated to his readers, and especially to his comment-ators (Fusioneers), commenting on their comments, which generated more comments on his comments. And on it would go.

Though I will miss him, I’ll probably get more done. I am sure that he will too.

But like all the faithful, I await with expectation the resurrection, when new life will be breathed into http://www.ocularfusion.net/

Yes, I eagerly await that day…