#mfs15

Every year, as Family Day approaches, something twigs in the back of my mind, and I check back to this blog's first-ever post — and when the anniversary rolls around, I usually post a link to it and leave it at that. I am a sucker for the significant numbers, though, so there was no way I could let MFS' 15th blogiversary pass without... something.

Even in these more gently-paced times — for various reasons, I didn't make it out in January to any of the shows I wasn't putting on myself — I still feel like this is just part of what I do, so I guess it's not time to hang it up quite yet. Partially that's down to me being better at keeping going with things than with starting or ending them. But it's also down to that back-of-my-mind notion that the realization I had long ago — that having a "job" to do in my community, as well as a sense that I belong to a community to do it in — kept me and keeps me from stumbling through the world as a miserable sad-sack.

So: this.

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It's no fun to celebrate alone, and though I'm perfectly capable of tooting my own horn, I try and remember it's better to let others speak to whether I've had any sort of positive impact. So I've started asking some folks from the "MFS universe" to help out. For the next few days, expect to see some guest posts here, with mini-playlists pulled from the site's archives. There's so many stories to be told in the over five thousand (!) recordings posted that I'm thrilled there are folks out there willing to share 'em.