I started this blog a little over eight years ago. Barack Obama had recently been reelected to a second term as president - breaking poor Mitch McConnell's heart. The two posts I wrote for the blog don't provide me with much useful information on why I made the blog and what I hoped to accomplish through it.
Now, eight years later, I'm someone else entirely. As I recall every cell is replaced in the body on a seven year cycle - though perhaps this is an old wives tale or Internet myth. At any rate, I live in a different house in a different state; I work at a different job; I have different pets. I've spent the last nine months in a state of anxiety watching the horrors of 2020 play out on my wide-screen tv in the family room/home office where I isolate.
How did I get from there - the place where this blog started - to here? What was I thinking at the time and why did I abandon the project so quickly? This past year has been so surreal and so uncoupled from time that I - perhaps like many - have become detached from myself. I'm going to try to create a blogging habit and at the same time review my journey over the past eight years in an attempt to relearn my old purpose - or perhaps find a new one.
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