Now that I’ve found my footing here again, visually, GIF-ily, metallically, I want to return to more processing via writing, to keep those muscles up: Clear to me now that the scheduled textual interstitials aren’t the way to go – especially as they collide with my belief that everything should be posted as soon as it’s done because the person that created the work has vanished in the act of creating it, and the next iteration, the one that’s created it is moving on to the next whatever emerges. So it’s these whenever-whatever syntheses FTW. Thinking here, especially, of Montaigne, his ESSAYS being formative works in my creative thinkings and in how I stake my claim to my identity in the digital realm; as the ESSAYS were his processes of processing – his grotesques, as he so wonderfully called them – so these – and everything I post (no I have no clue where my current GIF obsession came from, other than a love of silent film and a loathing of most video content online) here – are for me. I can only hope I reach his level of honesty with myself.

Also a different tool approach: I’m using Apple Notes for all of these pieces because I realized over the last couple weeks how I had let Apple’s one truly great app slip by: being able to take notes to myself via Siri in Carplay and then writing from there when I get a chance across all devices is something that even the best – iA Writer, Obsidian, Drafts – can’t offer me. And given that writing isn’t my main thing anymore, I’ll take convenience over depth/breadth.

Anyhow, this will be the last post blogging about starting to blog again and the next ones will be THEY WILL BE DAMN IT more in the vein of what I always wanted these to be: honest processings of myself, my world, and my perception of it and my place in it.

For better or for worse.