I am already here from another friend who is building their presence in this community so am happy to add you to my reading here. I'll be curious to see how it catches on.
It was good seeing you in person and getting a hug. And I love that you are reaching back to pull community into your life more intentionally as well as being honored to be included, as always.
I would love to see more online community built out from the tools we have. I find that I'm also much more hesitant to share as openly as I once did. One of the issues for me, weirdly enough, is that my life is so good that talking about it hurts other people who haven't found stability and contentment, or who are struggling with challenges that I don't face. Another issue is that I find that jumping between platforms is a challenge for me--when I finally joined FB, that was pretty much the end of my blogging elsewhere, and when I've tried to switch to other platforms, either I am overwhelmed, or there aren't enough people there to generate a level of conversation that engages me. But I continue to want that and to hope that it will emerge. So I'll be happy to give this a shot!
All of these things are relateable. And my life is pretty good! But I guess a thing I've largely stopped doing on social media is really talking about my life in a substantive way. As a writer, I've been trying to share moments, observations, and of course here, learnings. As I tried to express here, I wish I had the kind of quick philosophical mind that led Dave to post so prolifically with his thoughts - thoughts about faith, about science, about human bias, about thinking itself. He was somehow so rigorous and so generous at the same time, and I really admire that.
I guess another thing I can take from his lesson is his way of talking about trauma: I was always interested when the voles got involved, or when he otherwise spoke about younger parts and what he'd learned about what he'd learned as a young person. It's a subject I seem never to tire of, perhaps because it's the story of so many of us, and for each person it's subtly different.
Maybe I just keep talking about what excites me and others will want that too. :)
I am already here from another friend who is building their presence in this community so am happy to add you to my reading here. I'll be curious to see how it catches on.
It was good seeing you in person and getting a hug. And I love that you are reaching back to pull community into your life more intentionally as well as being honored to be included, as always.
Very much same. <3
I would love to see more online community built out from the tools we have. I find that I'm also much more hesitant to share as openly as I once did. One of the issues for me, weirdly enough, is that my life is so good that talking about it hurts other people who haven't found stability and contentment, or who are struggling with challenges that I don't face. Another issue is that I find that jumping between platforms is a challenge for me--when I finally joined FB, that was pretty much the end of my blogging elsewhere, and when I've tried to switch to other platforms, either I am overwhelmed, or there aren't enough people there to generate a level of conversation that engages me. But I continue to want that and to hope that it will emerge. So I'll be happy to give this a shot!
All of these things are relateable. And my life is pretty good! But I guess a thing I've largely stopped doing on social media is really talking about my life in a substantive way. As a writer, I've been trying to share moments, observations, and of course here, learnings. As I tried to express here, I wish I had the kind of quick philosophical mind that led Dave to post so prolifically with his thoughts - thoughts about faith, about science, about human bias, about thinking itself. He was somehow so rigorous and so generous at the same time, and I really admire that.
I guess another thing I can take from his lesson is his way of talking about trauma: I was always interested when the voles got involved, or when he otherwise spoke about younger parts and what he'd learned about what he'd learned as a young person. It's a subject I seem never to tire of, perhaps because it's the story of so many of us, and for each person it's subtly different.
Maybe I just keep talking about what excites me and others will want that too. :)