Female.
Pisces.
Milwaukee, WI, USA.
German by blood, American by birth.
Single.
Long-term relationship.
College education.
Musician.
Writer.
Home-owner.
Free of employment.
Realistic optimist.
Recovering worrier.
Striving to look up.
Until I can work up the concentration to turn the magnifying glass upon myself…
I read email daily and make my best effort to respond to everything. You can reach me at mercyskye at gmail dot com.
Origins, decisions, paths, and props.
The domain “mercyskye.com” was given to me by my SO for xmas one year, in the hopes that I would start writing like I used to. Blogs were just taking off back then and it seemed like the web was the ideal place to publish and get noticed. I picked “mercyskye” because it is a combination of two things: the meaning of my first name (and a nickname I picked up in college), and my middle name. At first, things started out more like a diary, and after many years, my jobs started to take over my time (or, perhaps, I let them take over) and true writing dwindled like a Darwinian appendage.
In late 2007, I came to terms with my life endeavors and decided to make writing (and music) as prominent as it used to be when wishes really were horses and I rode them everywhere. The current incarnation of the website (early 2008) is my first foray into someone else’s CMS. I struggled to learn HTML with my old sites, but I now realize that I spent too much time doing what I didn’t care about (coding) and 10% doing what I did care about (writing). Time to let myself focus on what I’m good at, while I can let other people do for me what they are good at.
This blog does not purport to be about any one thing, just me and my observances. There will be daily updates, ponderings, creative writing, and many other things I haven’t thought up yet. I do try to keep looking up, throughout the human and the inhuman times. Nothing is black and white—most everything is a complex mixture of gifts and challenges. I try to remember this and celebrate all directions in which the ride may take us.
From a technical standpoint, the following props do need to be made:
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A slow learning process.
When blogs were starting to become popular and ubiquitous, I noticed that it wasn’t just words people were posting—it was art, too. Blogs seemed perfect for digital photography, and in addition to reading other people’s creative writing, I loved being able to consume people’s creative seeing.
I used to take many photos with a Fujifilm 25-100 Zoom APS camera. I took that thing everywhere: clubs, trips, around town… and this even while others were switching to pixels. Even so, I never printed much, and instead had the film developed and ordered a CD of the scans. If I couldn’t take digital pictures, at least I could have them converted.
When we purchased a point-and-shoot Canon in 2003, I immediately longed for something more visceral, and have since been pining for a digital SLR. Before it broke in 2007, we took many good photos with the Canon, but I was never comfortable with it.
So many people have switched to the popular photo blogs, such as Flickr… I thought it was time to do so, also. This site design came with an embedded Flickr photo badge, so I quickly posted 10 of the better photos I have archived on our hard drive. However, I do plan on putting many more up, including the ones that go WAY back to film.
In the future, I hope to both get a DSLR and maybe one toy camera… the latter if only to play around with actual film again, and truly learn how to take pictures. Well, I now have a Canon Digital Rebel XTi, and also a version of the Felica called “The Bunny.” Most pictures posted after March 2008 would be taken with the new DSLR. It’s been slow learning, but fun!