Ride – Peace Sign

No one blogs anymore. Today I got an emailed newsletter from a woman whose blog I used to read all the time. She had stopped writing a number of years ago and switched to podcasting instead. Then she hung up her headphones and switched to a once a month Substack column. I still enjoy reading what she has to say but it’s different.

In the email, she announced that she is sunsetting her blog. Pulling the plug. Not that I often visited it to read entries from years ago, but every now and then I might think about something she’d written about and search for it and be reminded of the details. In a week, it will all be gone.

That I should receive this news on November 1, when I usually rouse myself out of my blogging hibernation, made me wonder if it was a sign. And if so, was it a sign that I should just go back into my cave, or was it a challenge and I should get fired up?

I had an idea for this year’s NaBloPoMo. I started thinking about some entries and then pretty quickly got sidetracked by election anxiety. A common problem. Plus the usual feeling that with everything going on, what the fuck am I doing prattling on about music and whatever. This is sure an easier exercise in the odd years.

But I am not quite ready to call it quits and I still like to go back and look at what I wrote in previous years. For now, I will carry on. Peace. ✌️