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Many interesting articles have been written on how our sense of community has changed over that past hundred years.

It is one of the things that pisses me off about living in a large metropolis like san francisco. I know none of my neighbors in any sort of real way... other than recognizing their faces and saying hi on the street. I would actually feel out of place borrowing sugar or cream.

One thing that has been on my mind frequently is the crowning of "work" as the only priority for most people in our culture. That is not to say that I am a slacker. If any one of you knows me well at all, you know that I am the opposite of that when it comes to my career in graphics etc. Where did the priority of community go to? Where is the priority of corresponding with friends? (i.e. talblog?) Why does work trump all of our personal relationships in such a universal way? The most obvious reason is survival: money=food=house=comfort... but when we do all of this in excess of our needs , and it actually detracts from comfort, what then?

The main argument here is that we all say "I just don't have time to do this or that"... It is not that we don't have time, it is that we don't give it a priority in our lives. I am thinking about this after easter weekend, where another holiday went by I didn't see any of my family.

Here comes the cheesy part: When I originally set up talblog, I did it for a specific reason. After moving about 5 times in 10 years I realized that a lot of people that were really important to me were just too hard to keep in touch with. Not that I couldn't call or write, but just because they weren't part of my day to day life anymore. I wanted a place that we could all just throw up a little link or snippett or saying and it would help us keep in touch, and it would put some of my really close friends in touch with other ones who might not have met. (Brett, missy, rob, liz?). Fact is, my friends are a big important part of my life, and I want to make sure that I keep them. This talblog thing is a silly little way to try to do it, but I wouldn't have known that liz has started knitting otherwise...

I got the idea from my buddy loren, who comments now and then and runs www.underachievers.com which is a blog about his old high school pals.

So anyway, don't forget to post, it means a lot to me (and hopefully others) I am done talking because I feel like I might just start rambling without a point... I like checking this site and seeing what people are up to... even if it is just a link or a line.