Loving Elleisle Blogspot- The One Year Anniversary

No, this isn't going to be about a new detroit lesbian vacation destination. In spite of how it sounds. It's about how grateful I am that someone googled my blog with what they could remember of it, albeit somewhat garbled but somehow right on. And how grateful I am that through writing about Belle Isle and Detroit this past year, I have gotten to know so many amazing people and places.

I know that for many of the people who read this blog, I am preaching to the choir about the city.

I know that for some of you, I am just another Pollyanna with a point-and-shoot, cherrypicking the same old bright spots, and ignoring the very real and overwhelming problems we have, representing the carpetbagger tourista invader faction. Welcome Hot Fudge Detroiters. Churl away.

Some of you have just plain given up and disowned your city. You're not from Detroit. You're from Livonington. Or Broyingchester.  Or St. Harper Heights. For you, I borrow Lyle Lovett's words, "But what would you be if you didn't even try? You have to try." Unless you don't care if you, or your kids, or your grandkids can get jobs. Or have to move away to get them. "Make it a cheeseburger, please" indeed.

But enough about lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way. Today I celebrate the "loving elleisle blogspot" one year anniversary by thanking you for visiting, being open to learning more, seeing for yourselves, and finding a way, your own big or small way, to be part of "speramus meliora; resurget cineribus".

From October's Access Arts exhibit, Michael Jacobs at work reinterpreting Detroit's skyline.

"We hope for better things; it shall rise from the ashes".  Happy belated Thanksgiving from Detroit. And from me, smart, and fluffy.

The smart one and the fluffy one leading the way through the woods on Belle Isle....