Originally uploaded by kt40
Here it goes; When I started this blog it was for family and close friends to catch a glimpse of our lives here. Since we live so far away I thought this would be an easy way for them to check out what was going on with us at their convenience. I had one good friend tell me she felt like she was having a cup of coffee with me while catching up, exactly my intention.
Well I know it was naive to think it would always stay that way because of the format I chose, a public blog. (I have been informed today you can make blogs private something I wasn’t aware of, like I have said this is a learning process for me).
Anyways, blogs seem to have a life of their own anyone can stumble upon them(reason #1 of why I like them). I have been lucky enough to stumble upon some blogs that I read daily, some are other mother’s journals.
Back to this blog, I told Jason when I started this it would be just for family and close friends because we were both, as most people are, concerned about putting our family out there on the web. Well this blog has seemed to taken on a life of it own meaning people I have never met have clicked on to it and let me reassure everyone it has all been very very positive,(reason #2 of why I like blogs so much) but with that said, it has also made me come to a decision to deleted my family photos from this blog. I just don’t feel comfortable with putting my family on anymore, like this man in the photo, I looked up from the busy city street and there he was looking out his window, he seemed exposed to me, without really knowing it, I can’t put my family in that window.
I hope you all can understand this, sorry if this seems dramatic I don’t mean for it to come across that way. I am just going to think about how to change this blog, because it is public and part of me likes that it has reached out to other people and they get a little something from it. Hope this all makes sense.
Katy
**Just so you know, I have saved all the old photos along with the very special comments from everyone. I still plan to print it out for my family sometime in the distant future.
October 18, 2007 at 4:06 am
I will look forward to seeing whatever you photograph –your artwork, your creative, humorous, sensitive and colorful perceptions of your environment. If you choose to continue the blog, it will be a daily delight for me, but I understand that you will need to choose the creative outlets that are right for you at any given time. Thank you for what you have shared with us. Mark
October 18, 2007 at 7:46 am
Thanks Mark,
It is hard for me to think of not having this blog because I have been consumed, in a good way, with it for the last two and 1/2 months. Just need to figure out where to take it.
Katy
October 18, 2007 at 8:37 am
oh no, i hope i didn’t cause you distress. i should have asked. do you want me to de-blogroll you???? i’m so sorry.
you know that you can make your blog private, right? just give the password to your friends and family and this way you won’t have to worry about people stumbling upon your striking pictures.
please instruct me on whether to take you out of my blogroll.
October 18, 2007 at 9:26 am
Jonie,
Please believe me when I write this, you are not the reason for my decision, this is something I have gone back and forth about since I have started this blog. I am truly flattered that you would see something in my photos, perhaps the same things I see. Please feel free to keep me on your blogroll. I can only be honest and say I don’t know where this particular blog is going to go. There is a part of me that likes knowing that I have unknowingly connected to people like yourself and I just have to find the right way, that feels comfortable to me to continue to do this , I hope this makes sense. Also thanks for the info about blogs. I did not know they could be private I am quite new to all of this. Sincerely, Katy