17 July, 2009
And That's The Way It Is: RIP Walter Cronkite
Walter Cronkite told America that President Kennedy was dead a year and a half before I was born, yet I still cannot watch that film footage without getting a massive lump in my throat. He was the consummate professional and he defined what it was to be a news anchor. Yet he set the standard so high that no single news anchor was ever quite able to live up to his standard (Chet Huntley and David Brinkley came close, but more as a news team than as individuals). I can only imagine how the deterioration of mainstream journalism left him disappointed, if not somewhat bitter.
Walter Cronkite narrated a great portion of my life, talking me, my family, and all of America through all of the most important events spanning nearly four decades. He inspired my interest in journalism: For a long time I wanted to be the Walter Cronkite of sports journalism. Because of Walter Cronkite I wanted to travel the world and tell its stories, yet he inspired me to tell stories right in my own back yard, as long as I told them with integrity and soul.
You have earned your rest, Mr. Cronkite. Thank you so very much for your steady voice and your inspiration.
Labels: in the news, passages, remember
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31 October, 2008
Overlooked
I seem to have missed my own Blogiversary. I took my first, tentative steps into blogging on October 9, 2003.
...and then had an attack of "this will suck and everyone will laugh at me and think I'm an idiot" and I pulled the whole thing (and put up the "maintenance" page that sat there for 15 months).
There may be some who argue that I maybe should have left the maintenance page in place, LOL!
Thinking Out Loud has been going through some...I don't know, growing pains or something, lately. I've often said that moving through the world when you have a blog is a lot like always wondering if your fly is open. I know I've become a lot more self-conscious, especially in the last several months as I'm finding myself facing the age-old struggle of having a blog that people that I communicate with through my day job are finding. While I take great pains to not talk about work, except in the most general sense, there are going to be people who find things on my blog objectionable and counter to what they think my views on life should be, given my client list.
But I don't want this to be a Cat Blog, either. So, I hope you all will bear with me while I figure out what the next five years of Thinking Out Loud are going to be like.
Labels: moi, navel gazing, passages, remember, Why it is
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30 October, 2007
RIP, Fup
It is with tremendous sadness that I report that Fup, the beloved Store Cat at Powell's Books, has died. She was 19 years old.
I saw her around the store on several occasions, quietly surveying her domain. Her presence is one of the many things that made Powell's such a wonderful place to spend a cold, rainy (or even a sunny) day. And anyone who's read the Powell's Books Newsletter has followed her "adventures" for years (it's the part of the newsletter I always jumped to first)! I am absolutely gutted that she's gone, but am happy to know that she passed away in her "home" surrounded by her loved ones.
Rest sweetly, beautiful Fup. You are missed.
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