"But do you hunger for it?"

Truth be told, I've written this post about a dozen different ways in my head. I had wordy explanations, long summaries as to where a decade (!!) in the legal profession has taken me, fond recollections of all the amazing people the blog has led me to, dick jokes, movie clips, a dump of all the pix I've saved to use for posts, a massive post of all the drafts I've never posted, etc. etc. etc. . . . but none of it really grabbed me - leaving me with, well, no good idea for a "final post." (FN)

(FN) - Now, when I say "final post," mind you, this is only the "official" end of the blog - I've never been very good at absolutes. I will probably randomly post, but most likely in the erratic way I've posted on the other blog, which means, e.g., nothing for months at a time. I just might get a hankering to publish something sometime down the road - but current frequency, current format, no.

But I found my answer as to how to frame my final post.

I went to my 20th high school reunion this weekend, and had a really great time. One of the high points was, at the picnic portion of the reunion, having my absolutest most favoritest teacher randomly walk through the park, spot three of us he recognized, then him popping by for a chat. He was the consummately cool old hippie when we were in high school - our government class, for example, included meditation and learning the correct way to do peyote. Gertie also shoved me in the direction of great books, great art, and all of the other things that the other 99% of high school teachers ignored.

As we were talking, a friend mentioned his current plan for returning to school for a new degree, and hemmed and hawed about loans, job hiring prospects, and all of that. Gertie then asked him, gesturing as if grabbing it something and clutching to his chest:

"But do you *hunger* for it?"

My friend replied with a simple 'yes,' and Gertie assured him that, then, it would all work out.

And I think that's a fair question to approach most anything with - "But do you hunger for it?"

When I first started blogging, it was a way to vent as a brand-new baby lawyer in a big scary law world. It then shifted into creating these blogging contacts with an amazing set of people that I adore to this day - but, most of whom no longer blog for various reasons. My focus then shifted to simply wanting to entertain the reader - after all, my problems and gripes and the likes aren't anything new, and aren't anything any worse, so, why not give the reader a funny video with, e.g., some dude getting hit in the nuts with something? Once that ran its course, I had the odd realization that my blog, for better or worse, had become a journal of sorts, and my focus turned really to recording mini-thoughts.

And for everything about it, I've loved it all. *But* . . . do I hunger for it any more? No, not really.

While I've loved blogging, it's fallen off the track over the last few months and, where I've been able to right the ship in the past, I haven't this time. Posting feels like a chore, and I find myself either boring as all get out or sounding like a broken record. It just feels like it's run its course.

So, I'm thinking of it as just a chapter in my life that I need to close up, and now move on to other things, other outlets. I'll still have a healthy on-line presence, and will read other bloggers, and so on...

Thanks to everyone that's inspired me to write this for so long, thanks to everyone I've met because of this, and most of all, thanks to everyone for reading.

Take care, and be good to one another.

--Bliss.