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Cleaning the slate.
I have just about recovered from our most excellent Japan travels. If you are a new visitor, I hope you might go check out the photos.
Nine hours flying home in a cabin filled with a fine purple mist of viral particulate coughing (there were about 10 people with moist productive coughs scattered through economy class that kept us all awake most of the night). At the time of posting Kelly and I both feel fine, so (touch wood)it looks like we have dodged a COVID Xmas this year.
I have been doing a bit of work under the bonnet of this website preparing for a fresh slate in 2025. As it was approaching storage capacity, I have been deleting old, unread posts. Over 1000 posts in total have been nuked, with more to go. And tons of photos.
I am also tinkering around with the aesthetic of the site. The more observant of you may have noticed a change in font, and some other small experimental swivels. Im going for a less formal journal/notebook look. Rougher around the edges, less confirmative, more wild.
All this deleting and redesigning is to make way for a more artistic and personal presentation through 2025. More photos, more unfiltered writing. For those of you who are subscribed to the paid model…there will be a lot more content specifically for you too.
Somebody once said: “Superficiality is the enemy of….everything”, and I have become increasingly despondent with the superficial (yet, I am the first to admit, highly addictive) click-bait, drivel served up for our mass consumption these days.
It is mostly just vomit with additives and flavourings.
I really don’t think we have all that much time left in this world as we know it (and you can take that any way you wish), so Im trying my best not to waste it on chewing the cud of the banal.
When you deeply wake up to the fact that your days are numbered (and those numbers have less digits than you imagine), there should be some fundamental shifts to your hierarchy of needs. And if there isn’t….fact is you will have wasted your one and precious life.
In summary: more photography. More unfiltered, raw writing (less persona, more archetype). Deeper free diving.
#OnlyWords
I have just about recovered from our most excellent Japan travels. If you are a new visitor, I hope you might go check out the photos.
Nine hours flying home in a cabin filled with a fine purple mist of viral particulate coughing (there were about 10 people with moist productive coughs scattered through economy class that kept us all awake most of the night). At the time of posting Kelly and I both feel fine, so (touch wood)it looks like we have dodged a COVID Xmas this year.
I have been doing a bit of work under the bonnet of this website preparing for a fresh slate in 2025. As it was approaching storage capacity, I have been deleting old, unread posts. Over 1000 posts in total have been nuked, with more to go. And tons of photos.
I am also tinkering around with the aesthetic of the site. The more observant of you may have noticed a change in font, and some other small experimental swivels. Im going for a less formal journal/notebook look. Rougher around the edges, less confirmative, more wild.
All this deleting and redesigning is to make way for a more artistic and personal presentation through 2025. More photos, more unfiltered writing. For those of you who are subscribed to the paid model…there will be a lot more content specifically for you too.
Somebody once said: “Superficiality is the enemy of….everything”, and I have become increasingly despondent with the superficial (yet, I am the first to admit, highly addictive) click-bait, drivel served up for our mass consumption these days.
It is mostly just vomit with additives and flavourings.
I really don’t think we have all that much time left in this world as we know it (and you can take that any way you wish), so Im trying my best not to waste it on chewing the cud of the banal.
When you deeply wake up to the fact that your days are numbered (and those numbers have less digits than you imagine), there should be some fundamental shifts to your hierarchy of needs. And if there isn’t….fact is you will have wasted your one and precious life.
In summary: more photography. More unfiltered, raw writing (less persona, more archetype). Deeper free diving.
#OnlyWords