Trumblog

It is really spring in New England. Not the dark, rainy, miserable season where blossoms and crocuses are beaten by cold, heavy rain till they are quickly lost and then rapidly followed by 80 degree full on summer. This year it is like the springs of my youth in Washington, DC where buds and tulips last. Where there is sun and days in the 50s and 60s and you can feel the promise of warmer weather on the way. This year it’s a real payback for those months of winter that we suffer through in Cambridge.

For the last two weeks I’ve endured a little IT winter of my own (not caused by our IT crew who have been patient and very helpful during my double crisis). Due to a virus on my laptop and a loose plug on my BlackBerry I’ve lost over 50 tabs in Firefox and more than 100 bookmarked stories in Viigo (as IT crises go pretty minor, but hear me out).

Those 50 tabs and 100 bookmarks, they represent 150 actions that I meant to take “someday.” Websites I meant to read. Ideas I meant to blog about Links I meant to share. But honestly would I have done that or was I just waiting for something like this to come along and clear my plate? Based on the age of some of those bookmarks and my past history, I suspect the latter.

So I’m not mourning those lost links. I now have a lighter browser full of opportunity.  Those bookmarks? Most were too outdated for blogging, if they were really necessary then I will search out the information when the need arises and I now have a lot of freed up memory on my smartphone.  Those digital losses are like last fall’s dead leaves that no longer clutter my yard so that the new spring grass looks inviting.

Loss is a part of life in the real world and online.  And so is spring.

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