I've been looking in a little more often now.

Thank for the thanks, Jo. I do not miss the activity levels and tasks of the jobs, but I found I miss some of the people. I started in on NarniaWeb in January 2005 just after I had started working the flight job. Then the forum just sort of slipped away from me. Yeah. Miss those times.

I think I would happily sever all ties with the social media world in exchange for the old days A long delay in response, @jo, but we are doing well.

Indeed, hear-hear!

Glad to hear you and ramagut are doing well. And, wow, what a change in vocation! Thank you for your dedicated service all those twenty years as a flight medic. I can hardly imagine all you experienced—no doubt much trauma.  {ym}:sad:   But no doubt you made difference after difference too. {ym}:hug:  

Church janitor sounds like such a change of pace, yes. All the best with that, and serving your church family in this very important way. 

I always love it when you pop in to the Town Square, cep! It does tug at the heart strings for the old days, to be sure.

... NarniaWeb is such a foundational part of my life so that I really miss its more active days.

Ah well, at least it's still up and running (thank you, Tirian, fantasia, Rose, Glumpuddle). It always feels like a second home here. {ym}:hug:  

Hope you're doing well, cep, and a huge HELLO to ramagut too! {ym}:grin:  

Agreed. I pop in every now and then when I remember, and I'm always so sad to see it so empty. Those early months right after the site started,

I think I would happily sever all ties with the social media world in exchange for the old days {ym}:giggle: A long delay in response, @jo, but we are doing well.

@shawna Exactly. I pop in when I remember. It is like an old friend like I somehow feel like I have neglected far too much.

Update for those interested ~ changed my job in my profile to Church Janitor. It is a lovely change of pace working mostly by myself. It includes performing some maintenance like painting and simple repairs. No more getting up at 2:30 a.m. Working as a flight medic for almost 20 years wore me out.

But yeah... while I'm pretty new to NarniaWeb I do have a great deal of nostalgia for forums back in the day. I have a lot of memories from large fan forums for singers, and later from what was basically a book and writing club founded by a family friend. And then of course my time with The Lion's Call, which is also pretty quiet these days... so many former faithful members who dropped off over time. Sometimes I wonder where they all are.

I miss those old days when social media is not what it is today. The various outlets really never replaced the sense of belonging I had here. It was considerably more manageable, too.

Agreed. I pop in every now and then when I remember, and I'm always so sad to see it so empty. Those early months right after the site started, when there were only a few hundred people and this place was super active were so fun. I remember doing those early Ditto stories almost live as people wrote short bits back and forth in some truly delightful shared creativity. 

Social media sites owned by huge companies and billionaires who don't care about any of us and will ban/block people at the drop of a hat, and 'curate' what portion of posts from people you know you can actually see, and care more about gathering your data than about community ... they'll never replicate what could be experienced from individual forums owned and run by people who cared about the few hundreds or thousands of members. 

Alrighty then!  Sure is quiet in here.

I miss those old days when social media is not what it is today. The various outlets really never replaced the sense of belonging I had here. It was considerably more manageable, too.

100% agreed, cep! And wonderful to see you. I love when you drop in like this. I, too, miss the non-social media days, and which social media was never developed. {ym}:giggle: Gone are the days when the Town Square was hopping. Such great memories when there was regular, daily conversation there. I could easily live without Facebook—in fact, I'm hardly on there at all anymore. And I'm not on Instagram or Twitter; no desire to be, but NarniaWeb is such a foundational part of my life so that I really miss its more active days.

Ah well, at least it's still up and running (thank you, Tirian, fantasia, Rose, Glumpuddle). It always feels like a second home here. {ym}:hug:  

Hope you're doing well, cep, and a huge HELLO to ramagut too! {ym}:grin:  

I miss those old days when social media is not what it is today. The various outlets really never replaced the sense of belonging I had here. It was considerably more manageable, too.

Greetings to all as you pass through the Square!

Life has been complicated back home, but not always in bad ways. I'm working on untangling some personal issues and also doing better financially than I was, and have been having a positive field day with art production, including a few pet portrait commissions recently. 

I've also made some new friends, a couple of whom I'm not sure are longterm but are sure fun to hang our with, and one of whom I've already bonded with very deeply.

I hope all of y'all are as well as can be, and would love to chat here more often!

I hope your great adventure was fun, memorable, and safe, Silverlily!

Town Square was last posted in in February, and it is now July ... our hottest, most humid, and often most parched month. But this year is different: we are receiving some lovely storms, which is such a gift for the farmers' fields and everyone's gardens. Often in July, the grass turns brown without regular precipitation, as it goes into dormancy, but not this year. Yet, anyway. {ym}:giggle:  

We try not to travel distances much in the summer months, as we are not fond of hot weather, so our main times for holidays are Autumn and Winter. This October the plan is to spend a week in the beautiful Québec Laurentian mountains with all our kids. Excited! {ym}:grin:  

Our gardens are burgeoning—both floral and veggie. Beautiful! The bountiful harvest should begin sometime in later July and onwards. {ym}:dancing:

We continue to volunteer with the wonderful Indwell organization, which houses and supports marginalized and vulnerable people who struggle so much daily with mental illness. I can't think of any better way of using well our days! ♥