Impermanence: Writing in the Sand - 4/21/07

I see our friend Cat's blog has been taken down just as she wanted. It got me thinking about the impermanence of writing in this medium. Is it like writing notes in the sand only to have the ocean take them away? As a girl I remember writing the name of my latest crush in the sand and watching it be swept away again. It was like telling a secret to a good friend that you knew would keep it. It was writing on the heart of the world where it would stay long past when it could be read by others.

Cat's blogs were a living thing. They were so infused with her personality and her wisdom it was easy, too easy, to go back and re-read them and forget for a few moments that that was the past and would stay in the past. So even though we can no longer go back and read what she wrote, it is still written on our hearts and follows our lifeline now. You know she would tell us to strap on our six guns, saddle up and move on.