911th Friday Blog Roundup

Rosh Hashanah begins this weekend on Sunday night. (I’ll write my Microblog Monday post ahead of time.) For the past two years, we’ve been doing services online. It was weird the first year, but felt more normal the second. We debated for about two seconds whether we’d feel comfortable going masked in-person, and then Josh shrugged his shoulders and said, “Singing?” and it suddenly felt like the decision was made. Services in our pajamas, with our guinea pig.

Is it meaningful? Kind of. I think you need to work harder to connect with the moment, but maybe it keeps me more mindful of what is happening. It’s harder for my mind to wander when I have to focus to hear the person on the screen and follow along.

I hope to go back in-person one day. I’d like to see our friends. But this year, we’re home.

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Stop procrastinating. Go make your backups. Don’t have regrets.

Seriously. Stop what you’re doing for a moment. It will take you fifteen minutes, tops. But you will have peace of mind for days and days. It’s the gift to yourself that keeps on giving.

As always, add any new thoughts to the Friday Backup post and peruse new comments to find out about methods, plug-ins, and devices that help you quickly back up your data and accounts.

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And now the blogs…

But first, second helpings of the posts that appeared in the open comment thread last week. To read the description before clicking over, please return to the open thread:

• “Applying a Lesson Learned from Infertility” (Infertile Phoenix)
• “It Wasn’t Meant To Be” (No Kidding in NZ)

Okay, now my choices this week.

Finding a Different Path asks an excellent question — even if you go through a similar thing as someone else, do you know how they feel? She makes the distinction: “There is a huge difference between ‘I know what it is experience loss, and I feel for you in your loss’ and ‘I’ve experienced loss, so I know EXACTLY HOW YOU FEEL.’ I don’t. No one does.” Perfectly said.

Lastly, By the Brooke gave me all of the feels with her post about an exchange with her daughter. Maybe I processed it through a different frame because I know about the unspoken loss behind the written words, but I thought she captured such a gorgeous moment in a gorgeous way. Holding onto a moment (“I want to remember last night, a warm evening in September.”) and wanting to keep it forever.

The roundup to the Roundup: Happy new year from home. Your weekly backup nudge. And lots of great posts to read. So what did you find this week? Please use a permalink to the blog post (written between September 16 – 23) and not the blog’s main URL. Not understanding why I’m asking you what you found this week? Read the original open thread post here.