Dear BWD:
In several posts of late, it has come to my attention that you do not intend to bring your excellent diaries to Daily Kos. What a loss! What a huge loss!
There are times when a diarist can through copying, pasting and photographs bring a perspective to a subject that can't be adequately addressed in a writing that comes out of the opinion of the diarist's single mind.
Your diaries were everything I needed. If you will pretend to be a frog with me, and leap over the break, I'll explain in more detail the huge loss it is for you to be missing from this site, and what it would mean if you came back.
First, an apology--not for the upsetting, mean-spirited reactions that must have driven you off the site. I do not feel responsible for these people and try not to be one myself.
No, my apology relates to the fact I thought you were a male diarist. Gender is sometimes something I can't figure out by the pseudonyms used. Blackwaterdog conjured up the immages of a huge, wooly dog, somewhat like Bo Obama, swimming in deep water, then coming out and having an assertive, bo-like tail like a flag pole with a twiggy flag on its top. So, I'd figured out your gender wrong.
What I did not get wrong is the value you are to DailyKos.
By contrasting the time since you have not posted to the times when you did, I can show you this:
I went searching for good things about our President. I hit HuffPost. There were the most jaundiced, small
images of his face. Our President looked ill. He looked stressed. All that came through to me was that the person who selected the photos must have been choosing those that suited the point of the article. When you post your photos, plus what you paste from articles and columns, there is something else that comes through. I think it relates to your opinion of the President. So if he is on the world stage, you offer huge photos showing not only his great moments, but the nation's great moments as well. Take the Start Treaty. Since Reagan, we have been working on almost this identical treaty. But no one else was able to do it. This President was. And you showed him in all his glory. Typically, you also intersperse economic information, so that we can see that the President has a multi-focus all the time: on the one hand working to get HCR, jobs, and on the other hand out on the world stage doing what he received the Nobel Prize for.
What I particularly miss is your ability to blend in the human-interest touches so that we get something like a three hundred sixty degree image of a President. We see him at the Easter egg roll, and reading "Green Eggs and Ham," helping along a small, blond girl in a fluffy white dress. Perhaps on the same page you will have him doing something else, say, at a town hall where he is explaining some complex piece of legislation that is being misrepresented by the MSM, and given only vile untruths by the haters on talk radio.
Once in a while, you simply lament--allowing people to see that even your positive view is being drowned out by those who wish only the worst luck for our President and our country. They who would turn us back before 2008 and the ruin that we have had to deal with since.
You are not only a good photo-diarist, you are an essential one. About my weekend just past, I can tell you this: without your diaries, I did not enjoy the political blogs very much. There was nothing radiant in any of them. There was not the full, round, human portrait that you give to your viewers and readers.
So the bottom line is, come back. You can see from the polls in recent days that those who like your diaries were well above a thousand. Those who do not like them were one hundred, or less, the last time I checked.
You lighten the political landscape of so many DailyKosers that your diaries simply live on the Rec. List.
I'll be watching for you, BWD, hoping for your swift return.
Sincerely,
Womankind