I’m not using it much, but a small step this week was resurrecting my presence on mastodon. I’m here now – @lloyddavis – this blog also has ActivityPub enabled so all posts are full-text published at the seemingly tortologous @perfectpath.co.uk@perfectpath.co.uk – I still don’t fully understand how it works, I’ve just flipped a switch, so I’m not sure why there’s a big gap in the timeline since October last year but, that’s not that important.
The two threads I pulled on a bit yesterday are of course intertwined – the hope has to be that writing in public using your own voice and out in the open (with caveats for personal safety) is the antidote to the kind of horror that’s taken over lots of public discourse.
I don’t have as much writing time today. I’ve still got lots to say, but I’ve got lunch with some old pals from GSA who I love dearly and wouldn’t miss it, but it carves out a chunk of my day and my attention. It takes time for me to get going and then I need more time to actually get these words down and in the right order. Part of rebooting this blog has to be more self-acceptance than I’ve had in the past. I’ve been lucky this week to have had a few days of being able to give almost full attention to thinking and writing – and that has to be tempered with days like this where there’s more thinking than writing, with the thinking not having to be so deep, although it’s always going on. It’s just a log. On the web. And some days the log contains evidence of much movement and others are less detailed. That there’s anything at all is good progress.
Also, Laura just came in with a bit of chocolate brownie from Gail’s that she’d been given in compensation for them not being able to fill an order. She wanted to share the angelic miracle – it felt like there was zero flour, all sugar and butter, but in a really good way. Like any angelic miracle, I suppose, it can’t be described in words, that’s what ineffable means, innit? But now my mind is racing much faster than my fingers can deliver!
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