This entry is way overdue, but my days have been stretched for other commitments and then some, so this is my excuse...
I wanted to muse about DD friendships...again(?!) … the thoughts came flooding when Steve allowed us to browse our old diaries in comfortable Calendar search and in one of my old entries I accidentally stumbled across the link to another's diary, dedicated to...you can easily guess it...to DD friends! And while we don't really need another proof that such friendship does exists and is very much real, I cannot help but retrieve for you something very important from the pages of the past as a lasting evidence of just how strong the bonds made here can be...I also hope this trip down memory lane would inspire you to use more opportunities to share your thoughts and daily musings here, in DD, where sharing becomes a magical thread, collective hive mind of the most diverse variety of people, use to weave the most colourful patchwork quilt of our life in modern times...
This was the last entry of the diarist Pragmatist (Chaya). Many of us, hardcore DDlanders would remember her. For me personally she became one of those special friends, who were way larger then the limitations of DD acquaintance...we never met each other in real life, yet we spent away many long nights chatting within and outside of DD, it turns out we had so much we could talk about! She started to plan her visit to my Little Island when disaster stroke and took her away from us...then, amazingly, we all came together to share our grief, to make her stay with us, and DearDiary has played a momentous part in preserving these precious memories...grab a tissue and go read the comments left on her last entry upon we learned of her passing, make sure to scroll all the way...you'll witness DD extending beyond the world of living!
Can you imagine - almost 14 years ago?!...Resurrected DearDiary has moved the times closer and brought back those who once were...Chaya has a page dedicated to DD friends. And with approaching DD anniversary it feels so fitting to bring it forward once again...to Enjoy...to Reminisce...to Remember...to be Inspired...