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(Time skip) | |
July 11, 2023 | |
Holy crap, the last time phlogged was in 2020. It felt like I was planning | |
to write a new entry like a few weeks ago, but actually reading my prior | |
entries, it feels like decades ago. | |
It really is a disservice try to catch the phlog up, especially since I'm | |
not sure I had much of a commitment to being comprehensive in the first | |
place here. So much has happened and so much is different, and the | |
important things are the same. The same things are that I'm living in my | |
little 4 acre homestead still, and with my partner, and still working the | |
day job. | |
The different things are that: | |
I'm fully committed to living a homestead life. It really is the single | |
lynch pin in my life, it's something I've steered into to connect myself | |
to my surroundings in a more immediate and meaning fashion and to connect | |
to my partner. Our garden is the biggest it has ever been, we've planted a | |
small orchard's worth of fruit trees this year, and I have so many plans | |
to expand it. The end-goal is to get much of our food from the garden, | |
it's one that I think will be a progressive situation that may never get | |
to 100%. I'm fine with that. And I plan to transition eventually from | |
coding, to doing some cottage-industry stuff involving designing and | |
crafts integrated with my land. | |
I've gone Wiccan. I'm not a particularly faithful practitioner, but it's a | |
spiritual orientation involving my connection to life and nature. This is | |
is all prompted by a series of death related experiences that I may write | |
about later. | |
I've got a couple new people in my life. I've adopted my partner's nephew, | |
taking on a bit of a mentor role for him. It was always an intent, he's | |
struggling and I can see being a help, and he's somebody I relate to. But | |
lately my intents have become plans and events. And aside from The | |
Nephew, I've reconnected with an old friend, Sophie, and we are more | |
friends than ever. I have lots of thoughts on that, may write on later as | |
well. | |
Other things that are not different: | |
I'm still a big nerd. | |