Is this the last day to blog?

 Then there is the demise of Blogger.

Let's think seriously of options if and when it is no longer updated, when more and more glitches happen.

As Tom says, "You get what you pay for."

Though I answered "The best things in life are free."

The truth of the matter is that Google is focused elsewhere. The Blogger program is kept alive by mostly seniors, according to my grandchildren who twitter or instagram...they don't even FaceBook any more.

So here this 84 year old sits wondering how the 80 some odd (no you're not odd, just the number) bloggers that I follow will continue without my  knowing what's going on in their lives.

Not to mention, receiving no more comments because that function, as well as that of posting photos, has already been challenged in the last month. Before that I already lost the lists of blogs I was following, where nobody's latest blog is listed. For today there's still a list, but with an old blog title. And some of the blogs on that list seem to get left off entirely.

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I'm now going to hopefully follow your blog posts with the aid of feedly DOT com. I will not be posting here on this "When I Was 69" blog for now. Look for me almost daily on Life in Durango.

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So here are some of the blogs I enjoy reading...

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Of course the links are scrambled with the "/feeds/posts/default" but the links work when that part is left off!

The AC is On

https://anvilcloud.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Beyond the Fields We Know

https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/feeds/posts/default

Salt & Light

https://saltairedaily.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Bless Our Hearts

http://www.blessourhearts.net/feeds/posts/default

Granny Sue's News and Reviews

https://grannysu.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Somewhere in Ireland

http://somewhereinirelanddailyphoto.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

The View from Squirrel Ridge

https://webcroft.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Tom The Backroads Traveller

http://backroadstraveller.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Interim arrangements

https://interimarrangements.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Vicki Lane Mysteries

http://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

The Frog and PenguINN

https://thefrogandpenguinn.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Older but better...?

https://olderbut.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

New Decade, New Chapter, New Hampshire

https://birdsbloomsbooksetc.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

TempoSenzaTempo

https://temposenzatempo.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Skywatch Friday

http://skyley.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

FLORAL FRIDAY FOTOS

http://floralfridayfoto.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Comfort Spiral

https://comfortspiral.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Field and Fen

https://fieldfen.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Nina Paley

https://ninapaley.com/feed/

Dina's Wildlife Adventures

https://dinascitywildlife.com/feed/

Southwest Daily Images

https://hartforddailyphoto.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Beyond the Lone Islands

https://dawntreader-island2.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Viewing nature with Eileen

https://viewingnaturewitheileen.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

The Smart Cat

https://thesmartcat.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Ottawa Daily Photo

https://ottawadailyphotos.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Miss Merry's House with the Picket Fence

http://missmerry-s.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Live and Learn-Toss and Turn

https://liveandlearn-tossandturn.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

THE SONGS OF A NIGHTINGAIL

https://anightingailsings.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Life's Funny Like That

https://lifesfunnylikethat.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

St. Louis Daily Photo

https://saintlouismodailyphoto.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

It's a Small Town Life!

http://itsasmalltownlife.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Sydney - City and Suburbs

https://sydney-city.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

MOLLY'S CANOPY

http://mollyscanopy.com/feed/

Finding Eliza

http://findingeliza.com/feed

Eye on the Edge

http://eyeontheedge.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

St. Louis Daily Photo

https://saintlouismodailyphoto.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

E. TRAVELS

http://www.elizardbreathspeaks.com/feeds/posts/default

JUNK BOAT TRAVELS

http://junkboattravels.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Family History Fun

https://scotsue-familyhistoryfun.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

the beauty we love

https://beautywelove.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

It's a Small Town Life!

http://itsasmalltownlife.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Mille Fiori Favoriti

https://millefiorifavoriti.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Greetings from the Past

https://greetingspast.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Life Images by Jill

https://lifeimagesbyjill.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

stuff from ellen's head

https://ellenshead.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Shadows & Light

http://shadowsteve.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Lady Margaret's curlers

https://lindahoof.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

COLOURFULWORLD

https://sami-colourfulworld.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Sepia Saturday

https://sepiasaturday.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Rostrose

https://rostrose.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

DRAGON DAYS

https://dragonstardays.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

    photographing New Zealand

https://myworldthrumycameralens.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Spare Parts and Pics

https://sparepartsandpics.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Reflections from Crumbly Acres

https://mymuskoka.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Viewing nature with Eileen

https://viewingnaturewitheileen.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Wendy Welch: Books, Yarn, Cats, Opioids

https://wendy-welch.com/feed/

Bless Our Hearts

http://www.blessourhearts.net/feeds/posts/default

Open Yesterday's Pages

https://openyesterdayspages.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Paying Ready Attention - Photo Gallery

https://paying-ready-attention-gallery.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

In Forest and Field

https://forestandfield.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Where the hawthorn tree grows

https://hawthornspellweaver.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

My Village Witch

https://www.myvillagewitch.com/feed/

She Who Seeks

https://shewhoseeks.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

sparklingmerlot

https://sparklingmerlot.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

"ook?!"

https://gzandco.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Sandra’s Ancestral Research Journal

https://ancestralresearchjournal.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

ApacheDug's Teepee

https://apachedugs.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

An English Girl Rambles from 2016 to ....

https://anenglishgirlrambles2016.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Durango.com

https://www.durango.com/feed/

Cranium Bolts

https://craniumbolts.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

News From Nowhere

https://newsfromnowhere1948.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Miscellaneous Monday

 

Today's pottery sharing...by Robert Reedy!

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From Jess Craven:

Republicans’ “Trump-a-Palooza” was an utter flop, with empty seats, embarrassingly low ratings, the podium literally falling apart, and little enthusiasm from attendees.

An unknown protest group sent Epstein “messaging luggage” to the Dallas Ft. Worth airport’s baggage carousel just as Republican attendees were arriving for the convention. Bravo!

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Gotta stay up to date...wait, nothing new in the last 32 years?

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Yosemite’s brown-colored black bears eating acorns. by Drew Wharton, NPS

There are also black bears in Durango...attested to by frequent garbage cans turned over nearby. They don't have the familiar brown muzzles with dark black coats, like the ones in North Carolina. Not that I've seen any, just videos. 

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Another field of science that apparently has stagnated!

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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. -Ansel Adams, photographer (1902-1984)

Kirtan

 Thursday evening last, I attended part of this program. 

"
Where: UUFD Sanctuary


Who: All are welcome!
Join us for a heartfelt evening of chanting and meditating, not only for inner peace but also for a world where everyone is safe and has enough. No experience needed. We’d love to welcome you! Text questions to Anna: For a taste of UU Kirtan, check out This Video..."

From the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Durango's newsletter (with links removed). Here's the YouTube version of the video.

I have enjoyed group chanting some time ago, so this wasn't new to me. 

Unfortunately my oxygen generating machine would sometimes make little beeping noises when there were moments of meditative silence. So I left early after the third chanting began. 

Anna, the leader, said she'd spent 20 years in an Ashram (didn't say which one.) I have friends who have studied many years with the Kripalu Yoga techniques, as well as my having been to several of the weekend workshops they gave in Florida. My chair yoga teacher at the Senior Center in Black Mountain has Kripalu training, but that didn't include any chanting of course!

Sanskrit words, with English meanings were printed on song sheets, but I preferred just the song and response method which was used throughout. It is definitely energizing. And I am so glad I went. I'd say I moved my energy from the low red zone up a few notches!

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Another spiritual tradition offers this...

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“And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.”

Maya Angelou