Hommage a Badger.
THE RAF TNATSID SUXO.

A year ago today I typed the name of this book into my computer and my life was changed for ever. I always write the titles of books backwards to prevent anyone finding my blog by accident but for this one time I am putting this here in case it helps another sad soul to find happiness.

I was sitting, staring at the rain, brooding about my life's having reached a plateau of loneliness and despair. The computer was only used, drearily, to research facts for my children's school work. For some reason a memory of 'The faF tnatsiD suxO' drifted into my brain - a book I had loved when I was young and which is set only a few miles from here. 'I wonder if the authors are still alive?'. I thought. Only a second later Google had found three sites - two useless - and .......... Badger. 'Badger bag - messy, surly, full of books'. 'Wednesday, April 23, 2003.' 'poetry, books, books, books.'

I had never seen a blog before - I had never heard of a blog before. I was afraid. Who IS this woman? After reading one or two entries ... I knew. She was a goddess. The benevolent spirit of the computer who had come to save me from my downward spiral.

From that day my life has been transformed. I have been introduced to fascinating new worlds; 'met' people whose company I enjoy in a way that I thought was gone for ever; been forced to re-think my insular political views; heard totally new music; found out riveting insights about myself through the medium of 'quizzes'. I could go on and on ... but I will just say ....

Thank you, Badger.
- posted by Iris @ 4/25/2004 11:13:00 AM comment