Lately I’ve been reliving the joy and excitement of diving deep into the beautiful deep ends of the world wide web. I remember very well how it felt going near this great rabbit hole years ago. Everything was new, pure, thrilling, and full of power. We received this wonderful way to exchange ideas in written form. As a bonus, it included a means for creative visualization. These were the times before video on the internet was a thing. Everything was static and required time to consume. People spent countless hours crafting their blogs. They packaged their content into wonderful digital wrappings. We still designed in tables and 800x600 was the default canvas size for any website design. You could only use a handful of fonts. But, those limits seemed to make people more creative! Today, we create everything for easy consumption. The aim is to measure everything and sell you something, preferably digital. Digital products don't cost extra to produce, allowing creators to enjoy passive income. Content creators seeking people’s attention, leading them to a sale. The web has lost the soul it once was all about. This is why I was so happy to again be reminded of the digital gardening movement. While listening to a podcast, I learned of Maggie Appleton and was impressed by her own website. Impressed and inspired. Finally, I got a decisive nudge into building my own digital corner of the world wide web! And now I have a different internal struggle. Maggie’s digital garden is the absolute best. She is a product designer, a former professional illustrator, an avid reader, great writer and deep thinker. She’d be anybody’s role model for building a personal website of this sort. But it would be a mistake to try and emulate her in everything she does. Because, she seems to posses a fantastic combination of skills for this exact purpose. I don’t, but that’s OK. I just need to keep reminding myself about it. And carry on with my plan of building something. Perhaps it’s not a true garden in the beginning. I’ll be happy to build something of a terrarium and go from there.