“I get knocked down, but I get up again, you’re never going to keep me down… We’ll be singing, when we’re winning we’ll be singing… I get knocked down, but I get up again, you’re never going to keep me down.”

Chumbawumba - “Tubthumping (I Get Knocked Down)” - from the album “Tubthumper”

The following is by no means an excuse, but rather an explanation. I got derailed by some technology issues last week, then allowed my brief hiatus of not posting to snowball for much longer than I am happy with. No apology will suffice, so this is merely explanation. Again - no excuses. So for all the people who actually read this page regularly (and many of you have told me as such - Ashley L, Michael I, Abby W, Martin R, Sarah V, Mike L, to name a few - you know who you are), I do apologize. I’ve been lucky enough to have you care and read my thoughts on life via music thus far, and I didn’t deliver. This will hopefully not happen again .

So this song occurred to me, not for it’s depth, or its ridiculously catchy nature, but rather for its blatantly on point refrain. The words say exactly how I feel, about life, and - right now specifically - about my desire to make this site something amazing. The posts thus far have been quite regular, and I liked the feeling of posting daily. I fell off the horse last week, but this post marks my getting back in the saddle. As the line says, and I now offer this publicly as a reminder to myself - “No, you’re never gonna keep me down”. The lesson, of course, is this: Be it your own doing, or life in general, things you control, or otherwise - never stop getting back up and fighting on. It’s that easy… believe it, do it, done.