July 8, 2009

I am sitting here, at the keyboard, and my mind’s ear is hearing Souza Marches; my mind’s eye is seeing balloons reaching for the sky and lengthy parades filled with vintage cars, all convertibles, with swimsuited ladies holding up signs saying “LIVE TODAY, LIVE TODAY”.

It is truly a celebratory day, albeit one of a more personal nature than one of mass revelry. My website, mclaughlincreative.com. Live. Today.

After going through all the communication iterations in my lifetime, colored TV, shortwaves, touchtone phones, vinyl recordings, CB good buddies, Fax’s, AOL, expanded internet,  CDs,  PCs, Macs, zip drives, Jazz drives, analog, digital, and a host of others, I have finally put up a personal website. (And I still create sentences that are too long)

On the musings pages, which will be dated, similar to a blog, there will be frequent additions as the days weeks months years go on. (Note: My version of MS Word does not recognize “blog” as a word. How quickly things change.)

As I perceive the speed with which things change, I wonder if my adoptive parents, (both of whom died in ’94) felt the same way as they saw “advances” in so many things, not just communication, but the growth of cities, the highway system, proliferation of automobiles, and on and on.

But yet and still, as friends of mine say, there does seem to be a much more rapid progression of things technological today. We see it working for good, as in Tiennamen Square, and twitting and texting in Iran. We see it working for ill in websites less than spiritual (porn) in nature, and scammers of the e-mail variety.

Bottom line: tools are tools. Use them for good.

As the days roll by, and the initial rush of getting the site live has passed, I will still be changing and re-arranging the furniture in this new house. More musings, adding and subtracting photos, adding new rooms, and as the years re-define who I am (as they do for all of us) I will be reporting the change.

Peace