{"id":2798,"date":"2020-01-10T20:45:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T02:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/?p=2798"},"modified":"2020-01-11T20:44:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T02:44:45","slug":"cowboy-hats-blogs-footprints-in-the-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/cowboy-hats-blogs-footprints-in-the-sand\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboy hats, blogs & footprints"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Dave Williams<\/p>\n

\"Me<\/a>
Me and Lu Posada, aka “Pa”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Thirty-some years ago during the Urban Cowboy craze of the 1980s, Lu Posada, a dear friend I met at the Yellow Rose, a now defunct Northern California honky tonk, told me, “Cowboy hats are like hemorrhoids. Eventually every asshole gets one.”<\/p>\n

Blogs are like that. They were a fad a few years ago, every asshole had one. Like cowboy hats they seem to be going away. I’m sorry to see them go.<\/p>\n

Personal blogs allow everyone in the world a chance to put on a hat, share their thoughts and make a statement for anyone who takes the time to read them. Some are whimsical, some are serious or weird, just like the people who write them. I love them all. They give me insights into the lives and perspectives of people I’ve never known.<\/p>\n

I don’t remember when Anita Garner<\/a> and I decided to start this blog. It was more than fifteen years ago but less than twenty, I think. I do know that both of us wanted to leave something of ourselves for our children and theirs. We’re sending them loving postcards from our daily lives.<\/p>\n

Together we’ve written five or six hundred posts, snapshots of the moment that we hope will explain who we are or were, how we lived, what we felt about things and why.<\/p>\n

I wish my parents and theirs could have done this. They’re all gone now. As I get old I realize how little I really knew them. That bothers me more every year.<\/p>\n

We all want to feel that our lives mattered. We want to leave footprints in the sand.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Photo by Genevieve Dallaire on Unsplash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You should start a blog or a journal. Leave your footprints in written words and have conversations with your kids and grandkids. It will make you feel good immediately knowing it might eventually make them happy to know more about you when you’re gone.<\/p>\n

\"Anita\"<\/a>
Anita Garner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And, in case you’ve never seen our front page here it is, linked below; it explains how Anita and I met and how a long friendship has turned into our shared desire to inform, entertain and leave evidence of meaning to our existence.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/theagingofaquarius.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

PS, a disclaimer: Anita hasn’t read this post before I published it. That’s how we roll. She may have an entirely different perspective. I still wear cowboys hats. I’d be shocked if she ever did.<\/p>\n

Click on that link to our blog frontpage above and dig into our our thoughts. You might find them interesting. I hope so.<\/p>\n

If you have a favorite blog or two please tell us about them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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