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As we say goodbye to 2007, I thank you all for reading and contributing to this blog. I’ve been writing here for nearly a year, and it’s been sheer delight to find so many like-minded friends out there in our virtual community.
I thought you might be interested to see what my stats tell me are my 20 most popular posts during 2007. Some of them are from my Collections, so are a collaborative effort, which makes them extra special:
- December23: Sunday Collection: Advent
- December 8: On a magic carpet ride
- December 4: The gathering light
- November 13: Enlightenment
- November 11: Remembrance
- November 9: Incense of winter
- November 6: Value
- November 5: Finding God in the world
- November 2: How would you deal with it?
- October 31: Leaping Determination
- October 30: Cubic Feet
- October 29: Moving the peg
- October 28: Sunday Collection: Living is better than shopping!
- October15: Blog Action Day: In Praise of Trees
- October 6: A finger pointing
- September 22: To embody
- August 26: August collection: simplicity
- August 14: Monastic life - a meditation
- July 25: Fat hearts
- June 18: Ageing and melancholy
To sign off from 2007, because I’m partial to a bit of smaltz, here’s the sublime Diana Krall singing What are you doing New Year’s Eve?
{ 7 comments… read them below or add one }
Elaine 12.31.07 at 4:45 pm
I’m going to re-read them all. Thank you for a year of thoughtful posts and images, Tess.
Tess 12.31.07 at 4:50 pm
Thanks Elaine, I hope you don’t go cross-eyed reading them!!
And I look forward to reading your blogs in 2008. I hope Edible Balcony Garden will continue once the weather gets warmer. I was browsing photographs today and saw a whole host of beautiful geraniums, which made me think of you.
Cat 12.31.07 at 5:57 pm
Thanks for the retrospective. If you notice an Ontario ip surfing madly through your archives, it’s me. ::Waves!::
Happy New Year!
Tess 12.31.07 at 6:11 pm
Hey Cat, thanks for stopping by, and thanks for your link to my site as well. Happy new year!
Barbara 01.01.08 at 12:04 am
After wallowing in a slump for a while, I feel deliciously envigorated today. Looks like a good New Year is on its way. I wish the best for you in the coming year, Tess. I enjoy dropping in and I look forward to spending some time tomorrow reading your 20 most popular posts.
And Diana Krall is indeed sublime! [borrowed pride that she, Feist and Arcade Fire (for the most part) are Canadian! ;)]
Tess 01.01.08 at 11:01 am
Thanks Barbara. Yes, some of my favourite musicians are Canadian. Lang, Cohen, Young, Mitchell. After I found that video yesterday, I spent quite some time wallowing in some of DK’s other videos. There’s a fabulous one of her, hubby Elvis Costello and the legendary Willie Nelson together singing Nelson’s “Crazy”. Magic!
Have a very happy New Year. x
Barbara 01.02.08 at 3:34 am
Ah, yes, they are wonderful musicians. I listened to and enjoyed the video with the timeless Willie Nelson and Elvis Costello. There’s such a quality in Willie’s voice… Her version of Mitchell’s A Case of You is quite special. Compare it to Mitchell’s own version (and k.d. lang’s, if you can find it).
k.d.lang is my all-time favorite. I play her Hymns of the 49th Parallel dvd over and over. Check out her Juno award rendition of Cohen’s Hallelujah. Barefoot and dressed in a cassock-like style, lang outdid herself. I could listen to it forever. If it doesn’t reduce you to tears, you’ll at least get goosebumps.