Fleeting Images Lightly Held

Thank you for a lovely comment, friend JF!

Perhaps I can confess to YOU a secret about this hub. I was just getting started on creating it, not feeling rushed or pressured to get on with it - but somehow - inadvertently and without my awareness - it becamePUBLISHED. I could hardly believe my eyes. I wondered if my computer had gone weird. All I happened to have definitely posted with intention to keep unchanged was the title picture, which had inspired a theme mulling around mostly still in my mind. Well -actually, I'd posted the title picture once and then gone back to the drawing board to redo it a little, hopefully before the accidental publishing! I do love the suggestions in that bit of wallpaper of figures kicking their legs, waving their arms, leaping in the air, - even a cat sitting with its defiant back to the viewer, tail outstretched, head held high. (I'm always seeing objects in the carpet or in the pattern of leaves or clouds so it grabbed my fancy.)

But I'd barely begun any real substance to the hub this inspiration had tickled! I was just sort of putting down the roots in writing an opening capsule which might serve as just a kind of stage-setting statement about the vague theme rolling around in my mind, and I was in and out of that capsule, editing, saving and changing it again, when I suddenly noticed and realized the hub had been published and already had received its first comment!

Though I'd planned to add an unknown number of other capsule entries - poetry (both from my archives and from among brand-new ones), along with other visuals, it was suddenly impossible to expand much. I'd selected the Norah Jones video to use soon - here, if it seemed to fit well as the hub emerged, but it hadn't been added to the hub. As it was - it fit the lack of structure and need for content wonderfully well! So I added it!

So, since the tentative hub had already appeared publicly and had a visitor - I couldn't just unpublish it. I simply abandoned doing much more to it, left it mostly 'as is' other than finishing writing the beginning capsule I'd been juggling around. Needed to get it somewhat 'done' right then and there before any more viewers saw it in its disheveled state - Finished the first and only capsule, added Norah and called it a hub! hehe .

So imagine my delight at knowing you like it! That speaks for your delightful insight. You surely could have described my symptoms to me sooner! So who or what is daring this devouring of life, my appetite or your canny nudging? @@^ (- that's my glasses and wide-eyed innocence, you see.)

'Tis indeed a smile-maker! Thank you, Alan! You make it great fun.

(I'm delighted to know you like Norah too. :-)

OH, STOP IT! No envy is permitted - especially not on your part, you whose writing is so enviable! But thank you for the nice cover for my hasty 'fix' to a sudden unforeseen need to just DO something! :-)

I'd considered letting it stand as though planned. But then you showed up and I couldn't fake it to you. Your gracious acceptance of it with all its unsavory beginnings is fully appreciated! And your compliment is truly savored.

Audrey - I may not be able to get my swollen head through the door following two such kind comments by esteemed writers! Thank you for visiting and for extending such a delicious compliments of my work!

Hrmph. Well , Alan- you still don't have my permission. But - it's optional anyway.

btw - You mentioned in the comments on your hub "A Garden That Grows Men" where I was visiting, that you'd added your lovely wife's & daughters' picture to "Worlds Most Beautiful Women", I zotted right over there to see, but then returned & left my comment about the picture on the comment thread of "A Garden . . ."

I look forward to your pending hub about your other daughter. "The Letter" which was for Emme when she was getting married is truly a treasure as I'm sure this one will be.

Yes! - Audrey is a gifted poet! I've read some of her work! She's obviously quite gifted in many areas! I'm delighted to have discovered her! Thank you.

EHQ - I value your good opinion. - I so admire your poetry! Thank you for the visit and lovely comment - and votes! Hugs.

Daisy! How on earth did I miss your darling comment? Seriously! You must have tiptoed in here while I was replying to Exotic Hippy Queen's and so I didn't actually get the notice of yours & in my semi-blindness, I didn't see it! I'm so embarrassed! I love the visualization of the - um - invisible keys. . . -- wait! impossible! haha!

Mike - that's just how it is : - just trickling down the window-pane. :-)

Thank you, dear friend.

Ah, Cher - the images of things memorable - circuses & carnivals. I can see why you'd think of those. I'm pleased that you were enthralled to envision such things! Thank you for the visit & delightful comment!

Hello Victoriai. Thank you so much for the lovely compliment. And you may be right about how the poem decided it was ready to go! (I'd add . . . 'before I goofed it up with verbosity!' LOL)