Restless Musings: An Introduction
Hello, dear readers, and welcome to my little corner of the internet. If you want to learn more about me and what I'm about, I'd like to direct you to the website for my budding spiritual companionship practice. This newsletter/blog is going to be tangentially related to that practice.
Up until about 9 months ago, I was blogging regularly. In fact, I wrote something almost every Thursday for 10 entire years over at Accidental Fudge. What started as a blog about my gender transition morphed over time into a more general place where I shared thoughts and feelings, gratitudes and frustrations. I made my last post there on November 30, 2023, ten years to the day from when I made my first post. I was incredibly proud of keeping up the blog so consistently for so long, but had reached a point where having that sort of weekly commitment started to feel arduous (particularly on top of work, and grad school, and the rest of life), and so I decided it was time for a break. As I've been getting ready to launch into my spiritual direction/companionship practicum this fall, I've had the idea in the back of my head that maybe I would start blogging again as a part of that eventually.
And then, this week, I realized I miss blogging. I miss writing for an audience, however small. And while I am nervous to start something new, I feel like it's time.
So, welcome to Restless Musings. I don't intend to set a schedule for this blog at this point—I will write as inspiration strikes and as I have time. I have a few ideas of things I want to write about, and initially I thought I wanted to have a small backlog of posts written before launching this, but I realized I don't need to have the same rules for this blog as I had for my last one. If I try to make it perfect, I'm never going to start. So here we are. I don't know exactly where we're going, but these days I tend to be more about the journey than a destination. So, if you want to hear some of my thoughts about life and spirituality, I'd love to have you along for the ride—we'll figure it out together.