OMyGosh!!! I just had the most profound experience and had to find this thread to post it. Whether anyone actually reads this is beside the point, but I hope maybe it will catch someone who is thinking about deleting their gallery.

As you may or may not know, I have been posting pictures everyday that are coming out of a "hold" folder I've been sitting on for awhile. One of the pictures in there I was sure I had already posted. So I started looking through my gallery to find that particular shot.......

I could not believe how overwhelmed I became when I saw a picture I posted in Feb 2007. My brother had just passed away....... I started reading the comments..... sadden by the fact that several of those people are no longer at this site because they choose to delete their galleries.
Most of them said condolences..... and then one stood out like a sore thumb..... even though there was no longer an avatar to show who that person was, I knew immediately it was Valerie! Here she was saying how sorry she was to hear of my brother passing so young...... not even aware that her own demise at an even younger age was about to occur!!!! 

THIS IS WHY I WILL NEVER DELETE MY GALLERY UNTIL I HAVE JOINED THE TWO OF THEM, as well as many others we have lost in the years since joining RR!

Love to all of you, friends! And please hold your families dear this holiday season, cuz you just never know.......

Kim Hawkins

 

Kim Hawkins Eastern Sierra Gallery