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| A dainty, red anemone, surrounded by clumpy clusters of mullein. |
Hello everyone, it's been a while, huh?
Thank you so much for your sweet emails;
they are cyber rays of sunshine in my inbox!
There are a few reasons for this uncharacteristic
quietness. Aside from the melancholy of missing
Liberty and family back home, and being plagued by
what seems to be a now chronic, achy head and neck,
on Saturday morning, I discovered, quite by accident,
that one of my posts was missing! After being
overcome with shock and nausea, I wondered,
had my little blog been broken into?!
I couldn't believe my eyes! Instantly, a trying
triathlon of shaky reactions went off like a shotgun!
First, my heart started racing, then it passed the
baton over to my blood pressure, which of course,
tried to beat its own record, and in doing so, sent my
entire nervous system way over its emotional finish line!
Let me backtrack, and retrace my footsteps, to fill you in:
I needed to pick a recording of mine for a project I am
working on, (more on that later this month). Having featured a
few songs on Poppy View, I remembered a valentine's
day post I wrote last year called, 'The Nature of Love',
which starts with a poem and ends with a duet, written
by the Barenaked Ladies called, 'Call and Answer'.
Do you remember it?
by the Barenaked Ladies called, 'Call and Answer'.
Do you remember it?
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| One of the images on the missing post, found on Google. |
The poem is a mini memoir of the journey that my husband and I have been on so far, the birth of our daughter, and a few other details of our relationship. When I went to view the post, the contents of another post that I had published a week before, came up! In other words, 'The Nature of Love', had been deleted and replaced with 'Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love!', so that there were now doubles of the latter. Was this a glitch in the system, or had Poppy View been hacked?
I can't tell you how hurt, angry and frustrated I felt. Not
only was my poem missing, but also all the wonderful
accompanying images which I had searched hours for,
as well. Of course, I immediately began to wonder how
many other posts had been affected, but because I
haven't had the time to check each one, I still don't know!
The next day, when I related to Liberty what had happened,
she was appalled, and promised to track down the post,
even though I told her it was useless; I had already tried
and had given up. It had disappeared; vanished into thin
cyberspace air, as if it had never existed at all.
After a night of tossing and turning, I woke up to an email from Liberty, whose subject line, alone, made me burst into tears; this time, happy ones. Once again, I couldn't believe my eyes:
'I FOUND IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!', it read.
I just sat there, staring at the excitement of her exclamation marks, and pictured her typing them, knowing that her mother would be elated and relieved. And I was, but more importantly, I was grateful for my loving and caring daughter, who was on a mission to save her mama's other baby, namely, this little blog, and its offspring of posts, comprised of poems, pics, and ditties, one of which had gone missing, but in the end, was found, safe and sound, thanks to the expertise of its big 'sister'!
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| Heart image: Google |
How, did she do it? Well, just as Libby, herself, was almost ready to throw in the towel, she remembered a website that she had learned about in an internet seminar she had attended in Athens, called 'Wayback Machine'. In her words,
''It takes snapshots of sites just the way they looked on that certain day.
Your blog was one of the sites that it took shots of!!! It includes 455 billion sites!
Isn't this amazing??? It's there, just like it was on the day you posted it!!!''
WOW!!!
There it was, in its original state, complete with poem,
pics, and song; actually, an identical photograph of the entire page, that is, from the header I had up at that time, to the five posts I had programmed to appear on each page, and finally all the way down to the 'Powered by Blogger' footer, at the bottom!
Friends, I still can't explain what happened to the 'The Nature of Love', but I do know that love and dedication was what it took to bring my post back to where it belongs, thanks to my daughter. For those of you who have had the misfortune of losing a post, or even scarier, an entire blog, please check out this site. Who knows? You, too, may be blissfully surprised to find a snapshot of your own sweet 'baby', there!
Thanks for visiting!
