Good Morning Digital Neighbors! Good Morning Friends & Refugees, Early Birds & Later Dayers, Conversants & Lurkers, Phamily & Dawn Patrol, Day Walkers & Misfits, ADD Irregulars, WSN Aficionados, and all Wanderers and Seekers.
I came to Locals in October of 2019 after witnessing the whole debacle with Patreon and the site arbitrarily deciding to cut off creators from their income because they found their content offensive. In this case, something Sargon of Akkad has said off-site but Patreon wanted to play the self-righteous prigs that they are and disavow themselves from such association. Dave Rubin & Jordan Peterson saw the writing on the wall and left Patreon and Dave talked about founding Locals. While I joined in October of 2019 it wasn't until May of 2020 that I became active on Rubin Report & Phetasy.
The shift came when I saw more of the turn to censorship that Facebook was all about during the pandemic. By May of 2020 I had had enough and left Facebook behind to give my time to Locals, especially interacting with the Rubin Report & Phetasy communities. I didn't know if it would be like Facebook, which I had been active with for a number of years, but I was looking for something similar without all the censorship and pettiness that has taken over the site in disagreements about the pandemic and the President. Facebook had become tiresome and tedious and a fair amount of people I thought knew me well were appalled when I didn't hop on the herd-thinking and group-feeling endorsed by all the wrong people. I figured I would deal with less of that BS on Locals and I was right.
About July of the year I started interacting with @SEPTUAGENARIAN Sept in my morning posts. It is not always easy to see the flow of those conversations since there were side conversation and offshoots, but it was a great way to get to know Judy and other early birds at the Report. Something similar happened over on Phetasy with the Dawn Patrol and early morning posts. I still think of Al who dubbed that name and hope he is well. I met some great people in those early hour conversations at Rubin Report & Phetasy, and it was Sept who inspired me to open Padre's as a place where I could chat with her and others we knew in our morning long form conversations.
Over time we transitioned to using Zoom and I would call Sept every Saturday morning and on holidays to chat with her on the phone. Never long conversations, just touching base, letting her know of my love and checking in on one old tough Biddy. She passed in June of last year, but I still miss her, pray for her and hope she has found the Ultimate Reality on the other-side with a pleasant surprise. I miss her humor, her tenacity and groundedness in common sense. She was fiercely independent and worked hard to make her life in her condo as manageable for herself as possible. While disabled from childhood polio it didn't stop her in the least, in her life story or in her aging years. Polio provided her with challenges, not excuses. That is such a great life lesson. She loved memes and was greatly concerned about the decaying culture and country around us. While still sad at her death, I am ever so grateful to have known her and enjoyed her friendship. I think of her laughter all the time when I see the various meme posted at Padre's and other Local communities and know she would have enjoyed seeing that one.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SEPT!!! You are still loved and missed by myself and others. A few photos of Sept and some memes that captured her spirit. We would tease her about the dead bodies in the basement. The last two memes are some of Sept's last sharing's before she began her exit from this side of reality.
