Back from Vacation, with Pictures

I've made it back from Florida, and now I have the pictures I took downloaded off my camera on to my computer. Now, I can at least show people I've been there. While during the space shuttle launch I did remember a bit of advice that with other people taking pictures better than anything you could take yourself, it would be better to just take in the experience (and looking at some of the telephoto lenses set up near me and my brother, I could believe that), I did manage to snap a shot or two.
( Yes, the pictures are ahead )

A small post for Star Wars Prequel Appreciation Day

Hearing the call to mark May 19 as "Star Wars Prequel Appreciation Day" left me thinking about the best way to add my own little contribution to it. I contemplated a post setting down my long path once again, from the fear that gathered all too fast after May 19, 1999 that my own feelings coming out of the theatre set me all alone and would shatter like a soap bubble if I poked at it anyway and all the things I sort of turned away from in response, to the lucky discovery that other people not only had reacted the way I had but were articulate about it, to shifting almost without realising it from the thought I had to work at holding up my feelings to wondering if the other side just might be the ones to be pitied for how hard they were working to hold something grown incoherent through vehemence (as much as cautionary thoughts about "blaming the victim" do come to mind), but it seemed sort of heavy once I was typing it out. Instead, I'll just say that my path doesn't seem complete yet, but I'm at a rather more content point along it than I once was. I'm also listening to the soundtracks.

"Your focus determines your reality." (courtesy of Qui-Gon Jinn)