This will take a while

I've pretty much decided if I'm going to break from LJ to do it completely.  It doesn't make sense to keep a toe in the water if I've decided the water is contaminated.

I am going to try to import my stuff although no real reason to do so as I never look back and haven't tagged anything to be searchable.  And as I've not yet made the effort to connect with anyone on DW I'm writing for an audience of 2.

So a little strange or a lot strange.

But I'm in the middle of reading a couple of different books that discuss change and the personal results from the attempts to keep it from happening.  So I'm flowing with the stream.

In the big picture of things I think leaving LJ is maybe more collective punishment than I'd like but it appears that Russia is moving towards increasingly authoritarian rule.  This DW account is a free one for now but I respect their intent to keep it advert free so I'll likely pay soon.  The Wikipedia page speaks well of the site. 

Clearly the hyperlink works easily but adding a picture will take a while.  So, things to learn.  Bit by bit. 

The more things change

The more they remain the same. 

Leaving

While I'm not a fan of collective punishment I just finished listening to a WAPO interview with the Prime Minister of Lithuania.  The interviewer specifically asked her how she felt about punishing the Russian people with boycotts and banking blocks for what Putin is doing.  Her response was far more elegant and gentle but was in essence:  

By what Putin could see the world didn't care if he increased Russia's land mass. He acquires sycophants and so gets no push back internally.  The west is indifferent to his take over of the Russian government.  Lithuania has for a long time said that the west should be boycotting his regime.  Had the west followed this recommendation and given Putin a strong signal that aggression would be met with destruction we might not be where we are today.  

My sister is moving off LJ to DreamWidth and the primary reason I'm on LJ is to have another stream of communication with her.  I will follow her.  I've tried to import my archive to DW and once I've figured out that has worked (or not) I'll delete this journal entirely so that it will at least have some impact with the owners of LJ.  Grain of sand but there it is.

My DW name is, cleverly, bill-schubert.  No end to my creativity.  

During the Desert Storm times I used to read a blog by an unknown women called 'Baghdad Burning'.  I read it in real time and it was sad and inspiring and riveting and I still think of it during such times as these.  Her title line was appended with:

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Test number 2

My father and me circa 1983 onboard USS Barbey FF-1088