A Million Manifestations

Spring has followed a mild winter in Seattle. I’ve spent parts of the past two weekends looking at this blog and trying to figure out what to do with it. I have been writing a newsletter since the beginning of the year, and have set it up so that anything I post here should link to a digest that goes to the newsletter. We’ll see how that works. I just know I have more to write than the purpose of the newsletter, which is to work through my grief during my ‘Year of Whatever.’

To catch up on what has happened since my last post, while I’m on Mastodon, I’m mostly active on BlueSky, post-Xitter. If I’m on another platform, I’m under my usual Iron Head Jane, if I want to be found. I was laid off of a job, found a new job…

Oh yeah, that grief thing?

I lost my spouse and partner of almost 21 years to cancer last September.

What I’ve found over the past six months or so is that there is a platonic me, but also a million past, present, and future manifestations of myself – at least in the spiritual sense. I’m working through that, you see. Or sometimes bleary-eyed fumbling through it.

This is all to say – I finally have this blog rearranged so I don’t totally hate it. I’m not sure I recognize the author of past posts, but I assure you it was other manifestations of me. Here’s the post for a fresh start, but don’t be surprised if I don’t follow up here too soon.