Sand Storm: My Regrets for 500 Posts
by Kathleen Maher on May 10, 2007
In the flurry of these last two weeks, which for me have included a blizzard of blinding migraines (always some excuse, right?), I skimmed Sand Storm’s farewell. Seeing it there, I trolled past, thinking, “Oh, 500 posts! When I find the time to write a response that’s solid, that’s three-dimensional enough so my respect and sense of loss for what-I-never-knew can not be misinterpreted as a casual ‘farewell and too bad,’ I most definitely will.”
Now, apparently, I’m too late. The post is closed, with no comments at all!
Don’t all writers know the discouragement of being ignored? Of course, nothing is fair; nothing is right and just in this world except by accident. If a small wrong is even momentarily righted, it’s an astonishing, if temporary, good fortune.
Who knows what Sand Storm’s lack of good fortune may have cost us? 500 posts? Certainly, someone read and appreciated them. To my chagrin I did not.
However and whenever you write, good for you. Whatever you read, good, too: the world needs discriminating readers. But it also needs writers of all stripes and colors. Each individual voice deserves respect, and in a better life, even some attention. Anyone who has written 500 posts has my admiration. Sand Stone: more power to you, whatever you do.
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