Let’s try something more casual
For most folks, my website blog is your second, third - even fourth impression of me. You come here because you met me in person. Sometimes you’re seeking me out for a reading or wanting to read my books. Sometimes my eccentric meter is turned up high enough that there’s a level of “I gotta check this out,” flying in the background.
A chunk of my meaty stuff is over on The Spirited Witch Substack and Patreon.
Having a “this is my daily record” post on the blog here does a few things for me. What it may do for you as the reader depends entirely on your context and reason for being here.
It gets me to check in on this site regularly. After the curse words, tears, and dollars that went into adapting to the Squarespace setup, I am more than a little embarrassed about how neglected the space gets. Yes, yes, C-PTSD, generalized anxiety, ADHD house, etc., but COME ON. I haven’t given myself a proper facial in six years, I suppose neglecting a website for a few months at a time isn’t the worst form of neglect I could commit. My children are alive and sassy, that’s pretty good, I’ll take that win.
It makes the site look alive and looked after to a certain megalomaniac search engine or three. Why does the big G keep buying things that are awesome in order to shitify them? I thought that was Meta’s biz plan! I sent pouts toward Waze, DuckDuckGo, and Boolean, and search engines everywhere.
Huh, does this blog even come with an RSS? We use it enough for podcasts, we could start using it for blogs again. Maybe podcasting feed sites could start doubling as blog readers too.
I want to record and share things that don’t necessarily need to stick to one topic. Back in the day, I would do my morning pages, post to Livejournal, and then go on to my projects. Social media disrupted an anxiety-relieving routine with an anxiety-causing routine.
It’s weirdly inverse, but I seem to live in a sphere that expect political rants now. I really want a space where I don’t have to extend that energy. I stay informed, I have learned a lot about choosing resources carefully and it’s helped. I don’t need people to know I’m informed, and it’s not like my opinions are that hard to figure out.
I can tell some of my weirder metaphysical stories here, after my self-imposed statute of limitations. I can tell some of my weirder Pagan community stories, like about someone who tried using an Oxford Comma to demand I apologize to her for refusing to let her fat shame me.
A brain dump space, or a rant space, or a “here’s a little something” space doesn’t seem like my worst idea. If nothing else I can use this blog to archive the stuff I make for social media so it gets more than the usual 2.5 seconds of inhalation before someone moves on!!
