I’ve been absent from the internet for so long and for so many reasons. Life has been very rich, as my husband likes to say. Good, bad, interesting, alarming, relaxing, lovely, so very cold, and so very hot. We’ve had to vacate our home several times this year as particular repairs made it not logical to remain at home.
Yet through the entire year, thus far, I have maintained my new hobby of making a journal every month and writing in it faithfully since December 15, 2024.
And in that time, I’m happy to report that my handwriting has improved drastically. I’ve upgraded my disposable fountain pen with not one, but two better fountain pens. I’ve bought inks and converters and small syringes to fill up empty ink cartridges. I even have a box on my desk that holds my very modest collection of pens and mechanical pencils.
I’ve been on the internet less. I’m watching less television (not that I was a huge watcher of anything) and listening to more music (physical media forever!) and have developed a new love of baseball as I sit and listen to games nearly every night whilst baking cookies, pasting things in my journal, flipping through magazines, or just sipping a glass of something with a touch of authority in it.
I must say, you don’t realize how nice it is to have less noise in your life until you turn everything off. The cicadas are in full glory, screaming well into the evening. Our little baby bunny that we found this spring has grown and ventured out on her own, but she comes back every night to sleep in the mint garden.
So, all is well here, hope the same is true for you.
