Engaging in the ancient art of blogging for the past couple of decades or so, I’ve found my creative output here has grown, while my other creative projects have dwindled. The last time I made anything worth mentioning was in 2019 when ‘Once Upon A Watercolor‘ came out, and prior to that it was the flight of fancy known as ‘The Delusional Grandeur Tour‘. These days most of my effort and work goes into what you are reading right now, as well as a few social media outlets.
FaceBook is largely unreadable these days, thanks to a toxic mix of idiotic commenters, misinformation, and downright lies perpetuated and abetted by a ridiculous and arbitrary set of rules that censor marginalized groups and allow hate groups to flourish. Mostly I post like to this blog and photos of friends to tag, keeping the content I see as free from awfulness as possible. I’m also quick to block or unfriend any moron that posts anti-vac shit or COVID jokes because I don’t have the space for such stupidity.
Twitter is markedly better at keeping things lighter, and I’ve culled and curated followers who share a thirst for the honest and good. There are trolls that abound there, but the block feature silences that nonsense quite well, and I’ve learned to not engage with anyone who doesn’t start from a sound place of truth and factual data.
Instagram is, oddly enough, one of my least-used social media platforms – strange because for so much of my life visual enticement has been a steady accompaniment to the words I use. It’s also the least annoying when it comes to the trolls and awfulness that are so prevalent on other sites, so I will do what I always intend to do and try to focus on cultivating a bigger presence there. The only problem being that I’m largely sick of the selfie (I’ve been taking selfies since 1986, so forgive me if I’m already over it).
Anyway, the melding of my social media personalities with my real life has been increasing and growing more cohesive as I become more comfortable with being myself, foibles and all, in every part of my life, and so the interchangeability of an online persona with a real human becomes more pronounced. That’s quite a relief when one has hidden behind an image that hasn’t always translated to a reality. This is what it means to begin living an authentic and genuine life – or at least the closest we can get in today’s fragmented, amorphous world.
{This whole hoity-toity post is merely an attempt to get you to follow me on Instagram, Twitter, or FaceBook.}
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