Okay. I know. Brevity isn’t my thing. I am a bit of a windbag. And enough of you have (kindly) suggested that I blog more often. And much shorter.

So I’m gonna try.

Since a picture tells a thousand words, I thought I’d try to use 100 pictures (10 on each of the last 10 days of the year) to summarize some of the best parts of my journey as the editor of POZ and to share with you some of the places this job has taken me emotionally and physically.

Today’s blog (which should have been yesterday’s except that I thought yesterday was Tuesday not Wednesday....a fact that had much to do with the fact the atavan I took to help me fly across the country) highlights 10 photos of things that moved me.

Stay tuned for another one later today highlighting 10 pics of celebs supporting the fight against HIV/AIDS.

So here goes:

1. The massive AIDS ribbon on the building that hosted the Life Ball just prior to the opening of the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria this past summer.
2. A poster at the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City.
3. The Washington Square Arch in downtown Manhattan on World AIDS Day.
4. Starbucks’ participation in Project(Red).
5. A great message on the AIDS Quilt hanging at the US Conference on AIDS.
6. A shy, but friendly and curious child in Western Kenya in a clinic I visited.
7. Another child in the same clinic, happy to be feeling better and getting food and drink.
8. On the way to healing. His mother’s hand made me cry.
9. I’ve seen signs like these all over the world and they remind me that while we must protect our own, our “own” should include the whole world and all who are in need.
10. The wall of remembrance at God’s Love We Deliver highlighting the names of clients who have been lost as well as people very much alive and thriving and generously supporting those in need.