If you have visited this site before, I am organizing all the new material in the “New Posts” category. These are posts and photos, created since the move to Minnesota in December of 2007, that were not on my old Geocities site.
When one door closes another opens.
Judy, June 2009
Just a short while ago I told everybody my website was closing. That is where I had posted so many of my columns and photos in the years I was living with Dad and shortly afterward. It felt a little sad and like the end of an era.
I received a reply, immediately, from nephew Christopher Landt, who does this stuff for a living at New Mexico State University. Chris is a computer whiz – always has been. He offered to give me a site on one of his personal servers for free. I thought about it for a bit and then said “perfect” thinking it would be nice to preserve the old material and, even though I don’t have a lot of energy these days, I am hopeful that I will in the future.
I chose an up-to-date, all about who I am now, new title for the page. Christopher did the design and set me up with a simple program to add to the new site. He and his wife are also transferring the extensive collection of odds and ends from my old website. “You have a ton of stuff.” he said.
🙂 Maybe they didn’t realize what they were getting into. Too late now!
I was also inspired to go forward by something a Lakota holy man said at a ceremony Bob and I and Ann attended. Lakota people have a big ceremony, feast and give-away exactly a year after someone has died. It is called Wiping the Tears. He said, “After today, no more mourning. Think about your life here,” as he pointed to the ground.
So here I am today, in this place, on earth.
~ Judy Gibson
August 17, 2009