I want to wish you a fond farewell! Not a sad one! :) It was an incredible time for me here at Chimeric Day Dreams. I've met a LOT of great friends and family. No easy way for me to do it, simply, Chimeric Day Dreams as you know it is going the way of the dodo. Extinct. Kaput.
I've tried to write this letter 5 or 6 times, but it never felt right and I always felt awful afterwards. This time, though, I feel all the expectation and excitement as I have when I've always taken a dive into the unknown. And it's apropos, because that's exactly what I'm doing again. But it's an exciting moment for me! Exciting and full of possibility and hope. Right now though, I want to focus on my family and spend time with my beloved. And for the last 7 years, I've been avoiding giving everything to a passion central to my life that I simply can no longer avoid.
I really want to thank those of you who have become friends and family through this blog for everything. Especially those of you who have become such close friends that I get excited when I see your comments or that you've visited. But even more for the people I never realized, until recently, were frequent visitors. Because you'd just sit there lurking in the shadows, gleaning tasty nuggets of my ever so infinitesimal flashes of scintillating wit and wisdom whilst sipping your low fat soy-chai lattes and half-caf mocha peppermint cappuccinos with smatterings of fresh lime zest. Yes, I know who you are. And I can't tell you how glad I am to have discovered you too!
So much has happened since I started this blog. I felt alive and then I almost died, after which, I felt so much more alive. I got my first Hollywood film credits thanks to my best friend of many years. I learned so many life lessons. I lost my dad - even though he seems like he's right next to me sometimes. My heart became captive to a woman whose heart and soul are beautiful that it literally takes my breath away. . . one whose loving spirit humbles me and and has opened up an entirely new world to me. Great Googamooga, I'm getting misty!
I'm fortunate to have the family I have. The friends I have. The love I have. And now it's time for me to take take a new step forward. Part of me really wants to share the journey with you, but the other part of me, wants to focus and stop taking baby steps.
Hey! I'm ONLY an email away! Sometime between now and the first week of Feb, however, this blog will be no more.
I'm going to keep getting my photoblog rolling. . . but I'm moving that. . . again.. as well. I finally got the blasted Photo Gallery working, though I don't have it up on the blog right now. But before the blog goes down, I will provide a permanent link so you can visit the pictures if you feel so inclined.
I wish I could promise one more post, but I think the Gratuitous Blog post says it all!
Unlike the last 6 times, I'm actually going to click publish. :)
I will leave you with the words my father spoke at the end of his last speech a few months before he died. . . "I was going to say goodbye, but that wouldn't be right. I'll just say, "So long for now!"