Couple of years ago, believe I arrived at Round Valley shortly after the snow stopped. A scene like this one always suggests a distant hope.
Last I wrote, I said I might have the new website up by Monday. It's Wednesday now, and I don't want to leave anyone hanging. I paid the subscription and connected the domain, and though I ran behind at doing that, as I had suggested might happen, I hadn't accounted for the Domain Name System having to propagate. Even before I go public with the website, the domain has to connect to the servers, and it can take 48 hours or more. I should have remembered that from when I connected a custom domain to the blog you're reading now, but I'm far from perfect at this kind of thing.
Have to get it right, though. And after I do go public, it can take another 48 hours or more before the website is accessible on Google and other search engines. So hang in there. We'll be on new ground soon. At least I sure hope so! Have invested a lot of time. I will provide that website address on this post and on the previous, as well as try and figure out a way to put it on the home page. That way, at least those of you who use the web version (for laptops and PC's) can see the address there.
I did fish on Monday. This past Friday, too. I haven't posted on either event, because I plan on doing that on the new website. It's possible I'll post about the fishing Monday, here. Wait and see how long it's taking for the new website to become visible.
About today's subject, four or five years ago, I felt put off by New Jersey Federated Sportsmen's Clubs having raised the price of membership from $25.00 (opting out of the insurance offered), to $40.00 and insurance mandatory. That insurance, I imagined, is mostly for hunters, and I don't hunt. A friend of mine tells me it's mandatory for management hunts.
But speaking of imagination, there's not only a lot I can imagine going wrong when fishing with friends, how many times has a friend--in fact--nearly taken the side of my face off by casting too close? I might end up doing the same to him. I pride myself on being a caring and careful sort, but you can't be too careful, and part of it is having yourself covered in case something does go wrong you just couldn't have helped...but are liable for.
So for the low price of membership in NJFSC, the insurance is a deal.
I'm not a public relations guy. I'm not making money on an affiliate link or in any way whatsoever, I'm just sharing with you my epiphany, my going from having no interest in insurance, to seeing why it's good for peace of mind. Peace of mind, after all, lends itself to care.
I believe in NJFSC, too. A down-to-earth, fact-centered attitude connecting thousands of us.
When Oliver Shapiro served as editor, he asked us who write for the newsletter--it's really substantially more than a newsletter--to create "thought pieces." One I came up with, "The Iron Bridge," is my favorite. Talk about distant hope. The piece concludes on us sportsmen possibly being the Iron Bridge to the future.
I doubled the length of that piece and include it on my new website as my first Literature and Philosophy blog post, the title expanded. "The Iron Bridge: An Essay on Necessity."
I hope it will go places out there in the world of the internet. And yet better than cyberspace.
