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 I'm back on the blog, baby. so apparently there's a difference between Substack and the traditional blog medium. I read one blog post about it five minutes ago so I'm pretty much an expert in SEOs now (that means Search Engine Optimization, morons!). 

I want a fresh start. I don't care if I have to write that again two years later. I want to feel like I'm blogging, which means writing just for the shits of it. writing as my contribution to this vast cloud of the internet. I kind of want my writing my now to just go wherever it has to. which doesn't have to be anywhere. 

see, i'm working on loving the process rather than focusing just on the destination. it takes hard work to put this into practice. 

today, I feel pretty mellow. not overcome with a particular zesty mood, but a mixture of colors on a palette. a little bit of overcast, like the weather when I looked out the window this morning in San Francisco. calm and peace when I walked down the streets of the sunset district without any music traveling through my ear canals except for the sound of my own hum (don't let me down by the Beatles, if you must know). a little bit of hope. the sky is such a comic blue right now. why IS the sky blue? 


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