Today is July 5, 2021. 

I's sure the platform keeps track of the date, but it felt good to start with that.

Okay, I was just looking for something to read.  

Blogs, of course.  Then the computer asked me "Do you want to make one?"  

Sure, why not?  

I have a kindle for books (and gasp, real books too) and magazines.  Something about actual books and magazines are nice, until you have to store them in an overcrowed house.

I do have hobbies.  The first photograph is of the shopping carts that pop up everywhere.  Collecting those carts are a little difficult, so I just collect images of abandoned carts.  Or really, any image these days.  Yes, I am a pack rat.  (One of the blogs Im looking for should concern itself with decluttering.  I wonder if there is a blog devoted to creating clutter.)

Blogging looks fun; however, I have no expectations or anything other than fun.  

As far as first posts go, I have no clue how well it is crafted.  I do use the word crafted because I am a big believer that there are basic principles that can only be learned by experience.  The tendency of the craftsman to pass along his knowledge to an apprentice is a compelling image and metaphor.

BPowell

PS The name means studio of Powell in French....I dont speak french.....I am not french.  I like work shops, which a studio or atlier is.  Aprentices learn there, not students.  They worked for a living, mainly the Master Artist's living, but they worked.