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Welcome! This website is a work in progress. It is itself a project as well as a dwelling place for other projects. This is a place where I hope to catalog thoughts on things that are of interest to me, such as: books and reading, writing, bookbinding, learning, practices of making, personal and social uses of technology, and small cultivations of faith and mystery. It could be called a blog.
Why a website?
Writing anything is an excercise in being articulate. I am interested in exploring the website's use as a space for writing in between the published book and the private journal. A website is both more public than one's private writings—people can visit and read them—and more private than social media—one has to travel to a webiste, seek it out or else stumble into it. Like a cozy shop, a website is a room with an unlocked door. Or a bound volume on a shelf at the library. Open and hidden. Self-contained but changing.
One of the uses of social media—and one of the uses often particularly cited as a reason why one simply must engage in platform x1 or y—is as a place to be found. In an era when we are not calling at each other's doors or calling on the phone, a website can be a place to make oneself available. Like maintaining a post office box, it is an option that sits between publishing one's home address and living completely off the grid. Having a website, I can say: "Here is where you can find me."
I am interested in play and learning. I have been curious about and desiring to step one foot into coding for a long time and maintaining a website is a way for me to indulge in learning new things (internet protocol, HTML, CSS, &c) with a practical result—a place of my own to host my writings and contact information—outside of either an academic or a professional context. Rather, it is within the context of the spirit of amateurism and cooperative community that is, I think, the best representative of lasting value and continued possibility for this whole series of tubes.
1 Pun intended, yes.