I’m not blogging because…
- I rediscovered the value of private thought, especially given the topics of most interest to me these days
- I started this particular site because I thought I wanted to be a “healthy living blogger”, until I realized I was happier just living healthily
- Corollary to point 2: I wanted to counteract some of the “healthy” food bloggers’ corporate shilling (Arnold sandwich thins, are you kidding me? Sucralose and cellulose fillers?), but that fire didn’t last long
- Additional corollary: There’s no point in fighting the marketing machine, the smug self-assurance of insecure and therefore tight-knit communities; truth will unravel them of its own accord
- If I’m going to blog about food alone, I need to take a good look into my heart and see what else really needs to be said about weeknight recipes…also, I eat beans and rice most nights, and I’m not willing to have a kitschy blog themed around the many toppings of beans and rice (HINT: VEGETABLES, SAUCES)
- If I’m going to blog about food, it needs to be about the importance of Real Food, and that requires more research and proving than I am willing to devote this year
- If I’m going to blog, I don’t know if I can keep trying to use food as a framing device for what I want to talk about
- I miss my old self-oriented blog, and I think that’s more suited to what I’m actually ‘born for’
- The database error that dumped most of my photos from 2008 and 2009 would be most easily fixed by calling my ex
- I am not always at ease with the messiness of the internet, derived from its omnipresence and immediacy
But, I can feel the words beginning to unfold inside me again, into something richer and more honest, something looser and, hopefully, more beautiful.
Because this world is a f*cking beautiful, beautiful, beautiful place.