I'm starting a blog.
A few weeks ago, I wrote a much wordier version of this: GOALS: -To avoid shame and embarrassment as much as possible. (To be "authentic," though authenticity is one of those words that's hard to use authentically) -To try to share bigger thoughts with a smaller audience -To have another place to document my life, because that is so much of what my life means to me -To have a place where I can share things I have written -To try, relentlessly, to escape the scrolling machine that is designed to keep us in its capture Following the death of a friend, I told myself I would stop messing around and stop wasting time and get to all the things I wanted to get to and be brave. The things you tell yourself to reorient yourself within the world, or maybe as a workaround for grief, or maybe when that person lived so intentionally and beautifully and you wanted to live in their honor. I wanted to spend less time on social media. My sister had been seeing a guy a little while ago, d...