Quite often, I suffer from little bouts of envy, archive envy. I look at the blog’s sidebar and count the years backwards. Although they span a three year period, cbmused has only been in existence for eighteen months. While the past belongs in buried archives, I must acknowledge it with more than a passing nod or a wink.

And I will.

This post marks a major and personal milestone – the one thousandth post I have written on a public blog.

Once upon a time, before a slippery fairy tale was recounted, the sea breeze whispered like a gentle caress and grains of sand gathered to form a few letters. Letters became words, phrases gave life to sentences and blog posts were born.

That was way too many moons ago.

A different time. A different place. A different mindset.

A lifetime ago. Five and a half years ago.

Looking ahead, I see that the future of cbmused is undecided. I may continue in the same vein. I may post intermittently. I may reinvent it in another form. Or I may soon retire. For the time being, I will draw a line in the sand then take a leaf out of the open book  and let the ocean breeze guide me forward.

But today, I raise a toast to the power of the written word:
To One Thousand Martinis in the Sand.