Hora incerta."
~ Latin Proverb
Greetings, my pretty Ponies! 
It is time for me to publicly admit it: I am tardy!
My inbox is filled with 1730 unanswered Messages. My newest photograph on deviantArt which I upload chronologically is from June 2006. I am late with several accomplishments for University, not to speak of having a decent job at my age. Which in turn would grant me the money to do and buy the things I have never missed until now. To be fair, my life is not a complete mess, since I have quite some talents and perspectives. But my past lack of aspiration and discipline make me unsatisfied with my performance in Studies, Sports, Social Life, Career, Education, Politics and Art. Time to change that 
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From today on, I change my daily routine to achieve the goals I have in life 
For my deviantArt activity that means I will focus on uploading my photographs and writing a whole lot more Journal Entries. It will be both essays on controversial political and ethical topics as well as personal thoughts. And of course I will be more determined to organize the Pony-plzes! When I was new to the Pony Business, the stunning quality of the art made me wonder what place there could be in the community for me without drawing skills. Sure, I could simply have let the others do the work, but I wanted to contribute my share to this amazing Fandom. My personal Winter Wrap-Up dilemma! And just like for Twilight Sparkle, the solution for me was the task of organizing 
Though in the long term, I do plan to acquire some Paint Tool SAI and Photoshop experience. Much sooner than that I will speak my Analysis Of The Ponymania on video and share it on YouTube. I noticed that there is a certain interest inside and outside the Fandom on such anatomies of this Phenomenon. And I discovered for myself via Everfree Radio that I enjoy listening to discussions and interviews in the background. So perhaps that will prove useful to some Bronies who do not want to read a 5000-word-essay, but who are willing to listen to it being read while they can do their chores.
On the downside, in future I will not be able to reply to all comments in the length they deserve. I hope this does create the impression that I did not care
I read and appreciate every single one of them, so keep them coming and do not be disappointed if my reply happens to be short 
Furthermore, I invite you to ask me any question you might want to hear an answer to from me, regardless whether the question is personal, impolite or politically incorrect according to your cultural conventions. If I should not want to answer it, I will say so without taking it amiss that you asked
Mors
One of the reasons for my rediscovered ambitions are a number of incidents that happened lately, which leads us to the sad news. The adults I grew up with increasingly reach the age where they die away. That affects friends of my parents I have known since I was a baby, but also actors and thinkers. When a friend of mine mentioned a while ago that Patrick Stewart (Jean-Luc Picard) is in a remarkable physical shape for his age, I realized that he will be 72 years old in July 2012. And only when I saw John deLancie in his video for the BronyCon Documentary I noticed that his first appearance on Star Trek as Q was a full quarter century ago, in 1987. Hopefully these and other great people will still be around for several decades, but one cannot be sure of that; death can strike at any time.I was browsing 4chan on Monday morning when someone posted an obituary for the Soviet vocalist Eduard Khil. Of course I assumed this was the usual trolling, but unfortunately it was genuine. He had suffered a stroke days earlier and died in hospital at the age of 77. He may be better known as "Trololo Guy" after a 1966 recording of one of his songs that suddenly became an Internet meme in 2010. Becoming a meme can be challenging, especially for people unfamiliar with the internet, but Eduard Khil took it with humor and in good spirit. He even addressed the internet community in a video, asking the people all over the world to write their own lyrics for the songs, share them and sing them together. As sad as it is that such a positive man passed away, he had a long successful life with a rise to unprecedented global fame in his final years. I am happy that he received so much appreciation, enjoying it and giving it back to the world. Ultimately, I consider it a happy ending
This was different with the shocking news I received in the early hours of Tuesday; when the brother of our fellow deviant Lisa-Schneider announced that she had died in a car accident the very morning. Lisa was only 20 years old. Two weeks earlier she had changed her original deviantArt name "Lisalein", the cute version of "Lisa" in German, and we had joked around how we are all totally mature and serious now. She was a talented photographer and a most lovely person, and she shared a lot of both on deviantArt. Her profile page and artist descriptions belong to the most personal and emotional I have ever seen, and it is really hard to imagine that a person so full of life could have simply been taken away from one day to the next. To focus on the positive, over the last months Lisa truly found her bliss in both job and love. Also, her family wishes her deviantArt account to stay up, for which I am very grateful.
It will be the most beautiful memorial
Your faithful Brony, Ray! 
