five years
“Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.” (jean paul richter)
(my blog is a part of me)
dear blog,
five years ago today, i wrote my first post. i mean really what is there to say to you that hasn’t already been said on you during the past five years?
i had no idea what i was doing and i had no idea that it would last this long, that you would evolve as you have, that you would lead me to create photoblogs and flickr sites and then force me to learn html and css and help me discover blogger and handcoding and typepad and movable type and wordpress. i had no idea you would open up opportunities for photoshows and publications. i had no idea that strangers would come and read my words and that some of those strangers would turn into friends and that those friendships would be so incredibly meaningful and caring.
i feel pretty grateful to have this little room of my own, this place to express myself and connect with others and so my dear little blog … i would like to wish you a happy birthday … thank you for being you!
xoxo
dar (aka daisies)
p.s.
a super talented writer friend of mine is doing a wonderful series on women bloggers and she interviewed me for contribution among a whole lot of very cool women bloggers. i am find the interview fascinating and i am amazed at how much the blogging world has grown and continues to grow. i am glad this interview is running on your birthday, it somehow feels fitting.
July 23rd, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Happy birthday!!! =)
July 23rd, 2008 at 1:06 pm
OMG - congrats my love. I am so happy to have met you this way! One day we’ll meet in person.
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:18 pm
Oh wow. A lot can happen in a few short years! Happy Birthday blog, and I’m glad Annie sent me this-a-way.
P.S. Love your photos too. Can you take a fabulous one of daisies I could use? Just joking!
Daisy
July 23rd, 2008 at 3:34 pm
what a perfect birthday present for you dear blog! a love letter from your daisies! i am also very grateful to have made your acquaintance for you are an inspiration to me each and every time i come for a visit. please thank dar for me and tell her i hope to meet her in person one day.
here’s to another good five years!!
xox bird-tweets
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Happy b-day & thank you for sharing! I come and read your blog on occasion and really enjoyed learning more about your life today. I’m going to go write my own…
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:50 pm
Hey D!
I love your approach to this blogbirthday. Wow, five years? I can’t imagine blogging for that long. I’ve only done it for two. But your blog is so right, there are so many wonderful and unexpected things that happen when you blog - from the great folks you meet to the opportunities that come out of nowhere.
If I’d have known it was your bloggy birthday I surely would have dedicated the post to it. Happy Birthday and here’s to many, many more.
Hugs,
Annie
July 23rd, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Happy Birthday to your beautiful blog, and your beautiful words… hmmmm… is it wrong to a make a wish on your blog’s birthday? I hope not because I make it now… soon, very soon we will meet face to face where I can hug you, and revel in all the beauty you have brought to my life…
:-)
(((HUGS))),
Love,
me
July 23rd, 2008 at 6:48 pm
happy, happy, birthday to your beautiful, beautiful blog.
If you had not created this home, I too would never have met someone I so dearly love and so deeply admire.
And may I add that I have never seen you looking more beautiful than you do today…
so much bloggy birthday love to you my dear friend
xoxo
July 23rd, 2008 at 6:56 pm
I remember a friend of mine came home from teaching overseas about 4-5 years ago and showed me the beginnings of her “blog”. I was like “what the hell is a BLOG?”
Happy Birthday Dar’s blog!!! I’ve laughed, smiled, learned, grown and spilled tears over your words. I have had to stop and catch my breath at so many gorgeous photos.
I feel so blessed to have crossed paths with you, and look forward to reading so much more.
Cheers!!
Congrats Dar!!!
July 23rd, 2008 at 7:28 pm
congrats Daisies..5 years is a long time…pretty inspiring for all of us bloggers.
July 24th, 2008 at 5:38 am
Happy birthday to your darling blog, and congratulations to you darling girl! I adore your writing and your pictures, and you are truly an inspiration.
Cxx
July 24th, 2008 at 6:21 am
happy five years
to a blog
that i have grown to love
and look for each morning
before i head off to the rest of the day…
you are wonderful and inspiring,
beautiful and real…
i heart you.
:0)
July 24th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Thank you and Happy blog birthday! I raise my cup to you as I wink and smile…here’s to many more years of celebrating your beautiful voice, your lovely spirit, you!!! xo
thank you for the video info…i am going to go for it…it just might be awhile until I get it down. ;-)
and THANK YOU for your comment to my “where are you” post…sigh..yes, thank you. xoxo
July 24th, 2008 at 10:07 am
First…what a pretty picture of you! Such gentleness in those eyes of yours.
Second…happy birthday to your dear bloggie…I too, look forward to pausing here everyday…Your words have brought me to tears…made me laugh…dance…sigh…You have inspired me to take chances…open up…compelled me to look a little farther within…
For all this I say thanks sweet girl…
xoxo
July 24th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Happy birthday, Darlene’s Blog (with a capital B)! I am so so happy that you’re still sharing your wonderful self with us. I’m sorry I haven’t been able to read every single post, but I always identify with what you say, and I just love you, you know. :-)
Hope you have a fantastic day, my friend. xxoo
July 24th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Happy Blogging Birthday. Five years! Wow!
I am so, so glad you share yourself here!
XO,
melba
July 24th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Happy Blog Birthday! and Congratulations! I am on my way to read your interview.
You super cool woman!
July 24th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
dear darlene’s blog,
you spill of joy and love.
thank you for being born.
love,
mccabe x
July 25th, 2008 at 6:45 am
goodness five years! blogworld can be pretty amazing, wow, five years, happy blogiversary!
July 25th, 2008 at 6:52 am
Congratulations Daisies! That is a huge accomplishment and you totally deserve the limelight, you share your art and words with us freely and beautifully. I’m glad you’re getting some acknowledgment for all your works of beauty.
July 25th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLOGGIE!!!!!!!!!
I’m glad that you’ve found so much love in the blogging world, and definately glad that our blogs made our paths cross. *hug*
July 25th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Your blog is an answer to a call in the void. A voice reaching out to all that need to listen…
Thank you for that!
July 26th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Happy Birthday to your sweet sweet little bloggy space.
When I celebrate my blog’s first birthday, I will be giving thanks to you and this space for inspiring me to start, and open up to a new world here. It all started because of you Darlene, and this incredible place you have provided for us to come and be a part of the beauty you see in your world.
May there be another 5 years here, full of the richness and loveliness of you.
So much love xo
July 27th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Happy birthday blog!
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:25 am
What a great celebration, and encouraging as a newbie blogger to see how your blogging has evolved. Kudos and thanks for sharing your life!