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