Thought I’d post this here too:

After about two months of long days and (seemingly) endless tweaking and troubleshooting, I’ve finally finished new website! I have to admit, I love WordPress & Zenphoto who provided such an excellent platform to build my website on!

I kept a familiar layout, but upgraded to a formal status with khaki colors! I also added a ton of new information. I now have a section for regular updates which I’ll use for introducing new albums and images. I also have a more robust section for pricing, as well as a fairly comprehensive FAQ section, answering a lot of questions people might have.

I’ve also tweaked the way that images display, making navigation easier, and hopefully accessible from lower screen resolutions.

All in all, I’m pleased with the new website. I hope you’ll take a few minutes to check it out and maybe drop me some feedback!

Wanted to drop everyone a quick reminder that I’ve moved to my own server! I’d love to see some of you all there!

http://william.petruzzo.com

ALSO, don’t forget to

UPDATE YOUR RSS FEED!

I’ve been blogging here on WordPress.com for about eight months now; in fact, if my memory serves me correctly, I haven’t yet missed day. In that time I’ve accumulated a healthy daily visit from regular readers. Gotten some good feedback, and some bad feedback as well. I’ve made some new friends and been reprimanded by old friends. I’ve learned a great deal about blogging and the blogosphere. It’s been quite an exciting learning experience here on WordPress.com. However, now will repeat readers beginning to mount and grow and beginning to see substantial traffic, I’ve decided that I need to make a move before it’s too late.

See, what many people (who just stumble in from Google) don’t realize, is that those little sections there to the right are actually called “widgets” and they’re controlled by an administrator. We only have a certain set of these cool little gadgets to use and that’s it. But out in the open water of the Internet, there are literally thousands of cool little gadgets to use and enhance the blogging experience. So, for me, it is time to leave the WordPress.com nest and go out on my own.

As of today, this WordPress.com blog will no longer be updated. However, this blog will continue just as it always has, at its new home.

The new web address is here:

http://william.petruzzo.com

I know unfortunately this is going to mean a sharp drop off in regular readers, but hopefully, with time, I will win you back in my own realestate.

So don’t forget to update your RSS feeds and bookmarks and I’ll see you soon!

I think it might be that we take the ability to exist for granted. Can we really be blamed for that? We’ve been doing it, indiscriminately since we were born. If there’s one thing that’s pretty thoroughly ingrained in us it’s that we exist. Barring a few exceptions, there aren’t many places on earth that we won’t continue to exist. Our atmosphere is perfectly suited for us. We breath in and out and it keeps us alive. Even if we fall into a nasty or dangerous situation, there is the plain and simple confidence, that if no one kills us and if our organs keep working, we’ll live. It’s fascinating actually. It’s what causes people to run from dangerous situations; hope that if no one kills us, we’ll still be living. If we don’t crash the car, we won’t die. If we take our medications, and go to the doctor, our life will go on. The bear minimum is taken for granted, but the bear minimum isn’t nothing. It’s still something.

I watched a documentary on the Discovery Channel this evening entitled When We Left Earth. It’s about the development of the space program and NASA. But what I kept thinking about was the complete and total despair of space. Unlike earth, space holds no guarantees. If a person were left to space, existence could no longer be taken for granted; no matter how well the person’s body actually works or the absence of immediate dangers, space simple does not sustain life.

It’s fascinating to me that the thing perhaps most taken for granted by people, is also perhaps the greatest gift from God. The simple ability to not die. Sort of brings some new life to that weird Matt Redman song, Breathing the Breath.

Lord, we’re breathing the breath
That You gave us to breath
To worship You, to worship You
And we’re singing these songs
With the very same breath
To worship You, to worship You

There’s something I really love about thunder storms. One of my favorite things to do is to sit on my front porch during a really active, noisy thunderstorm. I always seem to forget ho much I love it until the opportunity arises and I’m reminded. I could sit out there for hours if the storm would permit. I think it’s got something to do with a sense of totally detached chaos. I have absolutely no control over a storm. It will happen regardless of what I do or do not do. That is fascinating to me.

Tonight was a storm, right in the vein that I love. The lightening was almost continuous and the thunder was that kind that you’re uncertain of which direction it’s coming from. The kind that has not so many cracks, but far more rumblings that you can feel in your chest. I imagine it was like Moses in the cleft of the rock. Just beautiful.

Grant me fear that I should be
Humble before such as thee.
Thee complete, I cannot see,
But in thy works, behold, majesty.

Make for me a heart of flesh
And place it here inside mine breast
Ever more to know mine Lord
For upon the cross I hath been blessed.