Oh, How I Miss You Blogfest

Today, is "Oh, How I Miss You Blogfest" hosted by  Andrew Leon, Matthew Rush, and Alex J. Cavanaugh!


On this day, we are to show our appreciation,  for the bloggers we miss.  Those who do not blog anymore and for those we would miss if they all of a sudden stopped blogging. 

I would miss all of YOU!   YOU all bring unique thoughts, ideas, skills to the blogging world.   Honestly I couldn't pick... so I wrote this poem instead to share how I feel about my online family!   It is like asking me, who is my favorite child...nope can't do it.

 ...Thankful for my
online family
their painted view
their voices
I
read,
hear
and link


they
 touch me
 like
cascaded
light
surging
many
moods


a dance of rainbow's
reflection in a sea
of daily storms and treasure
 washed ashore
from surfing
 in a tidal pool
my mind's eye
releases a
a silver tear
it
falls

Online family grows...
stirring strings of emotion
connected through
dpi, html and resolution
online souls touch
the edges of my world

their essence flows
between
data n' pixels
 forever moved by
this unique landscape
its wonderful, wondrous, wild
territory
so filled with facets
 of heart's journey
reflecting back into one's soul
all through
links and google
I'm forever
pinterested

© Ellen Wilson

I miss Lisa Rene aka Wasabi Mom- I did discover she has moved on to nutrition and still blogs. Her new blog is called The Fountain of Health!  Congrats Lisa, looks like you are doing well.  I'll be by to gather some tips~  Her recipes look really good!

Another blog, which I use to frequent is Being Ruby.  Julie emailed me after I had commented on her blog.  Julie and I have an odd connection, we are born one day, one year a part.  I think there was another one, but I can't think of it now.  Our mothers also share the same name.   Her Mom died at age 44,  my Dad died at 45...that was the other one.   Julie is an artist and I miss her voice....  She is on a blogging break, but I bet she will return and so will I.    Julie and I should write a book~

I do miss Jules from Trying to Get Over the Rainbow!  Jules is a rig!  Her post are witty and she has these fabulous stories mixed in with some of her crazy antics!  Jules is someone, who talked about coming down my way.  She was going to visit the Outer Banks.  She said she wanted to walk the Dismal Swamp and get a t-shirt.  Jules if you come my way, we will go get those t-shirts!   The shirt says, "I survived the Dismal Swamp Canal"-some say it is haunted!

 Thank you Andrew, Matthew and Alex!  It was fun to reflect, go back and visit some voices from the past!  I found a few other blogs I will check again.

What about you?   Do you have a big online family?   I so hope we continue to stay in touch.  I have been out of sorts lately, but plan to continue blogging, even though my real family teases me about it.   They don't  know what they're missing ;D