A beautiful post; thankyou. You know, some people look down on what they consider as a ‘self-prostitution’ of online writing, especially if it contains personal references. I think this is snobbism. If a person ‘makes it’ to the news on TV, radio, newspaper or magazine then it’s wow! Blogging and microblogging has taken people’s identity to a broader audience in a more democratic way. I often wish we had film of our family from my childhood. Memories are there but they fade. It would be nice to look back and have a record of the past.