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ADIEU

I've decided that it's time to hang up my blogger hat.

It's been a fun couple of years. And a magnificent 18 months of Fridays with Sam. Because those Fridays are now history, and because new Fridays will not happen for a long time, if ever, I'm left with a blog focused on remembering past glories. Not good. The original intention of Youngsamwise.com was to keep distant friends and relatives updated on his rather rapid and exciting development. For obvious geographical reasons that can't happen now. Oh well, life goes on. I count myself blessed for the time I've had with him.

I realize that I'm getting older, and more sappy, and more sentimental, and the death of things (even something as silly as a blog) hits me a bit harder than it did when I was young and invulnerable. So. I confess that I find it hard to let it go.

But I must. Believe it or not, I really don't want to be one of those old folk who whip out grandkids' pictures whether someone wants to see them or not.

I first thought about all this when Paul recently commented on my ability to stretch one week in Zagreb into a dozen posts. And I was only part way through the week! I had to sit myself down and ask myself what this blog's point was. The best that I could come up with is that it's a long love letter to Sam, for him to read when he's a young man and I'm gone. Something for him to remember this old fart by, to know that his Grandfather loved him. And if that is so, it would be better done in private, so that both he and I are spared further embarrassment.

I'll keep the archives up, for a sentimental peek at times when I miss him.

Which is all the time.

He's quite a boy.

Bye all, and thanks for your kind words and thoughts about Youngsamwsie during the past couple of years.



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