Made it.

And I am still here, I have accepted my age. Today, Thursday, the 12th, I completed my 88th trip around the sun on this space ship Earth. So I will take this opportunity to let everyone know that my planning includes retiring slowly from this phase of my happy life.

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born

and the day you find out why."

The reappraisal of my ten blogs for our fellow dancers has already begun. I have deleted one blog and the next one on tap is Central Valley. That will leave eight and I can concentrate on the next one to go. Central Valley has gone through its ups and downs but most of our best potential clients in the area have Web sites and have no use for Blog sites. They have the perfect right to their decisons.

I have given all of them a fair chance and the reader/dancers are the ones that are making the decisions. The blogs have become an easy game to play and enjoyable working in the comfort of my nice little apartment. And believe me, I am learning "Blogging." I have my own stats of all the blogs plus others when I can get the counters.

"A Day In The Life" by the Beatles

I can still go out and make my rounds, only not as often and I just cannot take photos. So I am always taking an extra camera and find someone that can operate and get photos of his/her choosing, his/her viewpoint. Just hit the jackpot with Kevin Hall at the Pearlridge Chapter HBDA social. Beautiful pictures. Most of the other picture takers would rather contribute to Flicker or Facebook and they should do as they please. Those places must be pretty good, they get more than a million photos per hour.

I have watched, as Blogging Hawaii, went, from being pretty close to Town Dancer, down to third place behind Oahu West. My personal guess is that the first Independent blog will be Oahu West. But each blog, with plenty of feedback from more people, administrators, guest authors and just plain contributors, will help make our dance world of Hawaii much better.

I have been fortunate to be allowed to play this long among the stars. and in Nanakuli, on "a clear day when you can still see forever" I can admire the sky sprinkled with stars. But as they say at the VA, talking about all their aches and pains, "It will end, all too soon." We cannot do anything about it, accept it and be grateful that we had some time to meet with so many nice people.

In Hawaii, dance blogs are enabling hundreds of dancers to express their opinions with reduced political risk simply because of the sheer number of like-minded opinions online. Facing these independent voices, the old clique machine starts to crumble. Unfortunately most of this will be after my time. Happy Dancing.