Decision

[smokingboot]

This account has just entered its 10th year, proof to myself that I can keep a journal going, albeit sporadically. I started it to get myself writing anything onto a blank screen without thinking of the audience at the other end. it's aim was to be public, yet as authentic as possible when engaged in the artifice of writing, and not to care really whether it was good writing, just to write. It resulted in my book, so making this journal friends only may be counterproductive.

But I feel the need for privacy. It is silly , but not something I can help right now. Yesterday, there was an unauthorised attempt from god knows who to get into my email account. The IP address was in Des Moines Iowa, of all places. What on earth is all that about?

There were people I once dreaded reading my words...not an issue now. It's for other reasons I close the gates. For a while this journal will be friends only; it has been pretty much the case over the last few months, but if there is anyone out there who wants to continue reading and isn't on my friends list, leave a message or write to me privately.

Edited to add: 31st July 2013, I am not making this private anymore. Some things will continue to be, others will be friends only, but the default setting goes back to public, simply to mark an ending.

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