Long Time Gone
I don't actually remember exactly when I stopped posting to LJ. It was not planned. It just sort of happened, and not all at once. I mean, obviously, the posts stopped coming at some discrete point. (And no, I haven't bothered to look up exactly when; it's only academic, after all.) I mean, it was only after a good while that I sat up and realised I hadn't posted in a good long while. But I do believe I know at least partly why.
Mainly, I let myself get distracted with a lot of other things, including a lot of other online things. I've since set most of those aside, in order to return to my regularly scheduled life, already in progress.
A number of major events have also happened in that time, and I found it increasingly difficult to force myself to sit down and write while feeling that my life was swirling around me like a hurricane. My mother's passing, now nearing a year ago, was of particular note, in that it sharply defined for me a meridian in my life that I'd long known was coming but had little or no conception of in realistic terms. In a number of ways, I'm still sorting that out, and may yet for some time to come. Not long later, I also saw fit -- or perhaps was finally forced -- to uproot myself from the fading soils of Rhode Island and return to my homeground of Connecticut, where I've now been since the end of May. That, too, has been a lot different than I naively imagined, and I'm still dealing with that reality as a matter of daily life, until further notice.
There's more, and that will all come, in time, but for now I just want to say that though I haven't posted in a long time, I have been visiting. Not always regularly, but often enough to keep reasonable track of what's going on in this quieter and more sober and thoughtful corner of teh intarwebz. I've missed being a more active part of it, and I'm glad to be back.
Mainly, I let myself get distracted with a lot of other things, including a lot of other online things. I've since set most of those aside, in order to return to my regularly scheduled life, already in progress.
A number of major events have also happened in that time, and I found it increasingly difficult to force myself to sit down and write while feeling that my life was swirling around me like a hurricane. My mother's passing, now nearing a year ago, was of particular note, in that it sharply defined for me a meridian in my life that I'd long known was coming but had little or no conception of in realistic terms. In a number of ways, I'm still sorting that out, and may yet for some time to come. Not long later, I also saw fit -- or perhaps was finally forced -- to uproot myself from the fading soils of Rhode Island and return to my homeground of Connecticut, where I've now been since the end of May. That, too, has been a lot different than I naively imagined, and I'm still dealing with that reality as a matter of daily life, until further notice.
There's more, and that will all come, in time, but for now I just want to say that though I haven't posted in a long time, I have been visiting. Not always regularly, but often enough to keep reasonable track of what's going on in this quieter and more sober and thoughtful corner of teh intarwebz. I've missed being a more active part of it, and I'm glad to be back.