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Oh hello. It’s me Vivienne.
It’s been over 3 years since I clicked ‘post’ here. It’s probably largely because of that kiddo of mine up there in the photo who is now 2.5!
But I think it’s also a combination of the culture of blogging disappearing even more into people sharing on Instagram, and also this website of mine changing it’s format so even trying to come here and write a post felt new and overwhelming. Oh, and having pretty much only nap time to do anything for me and lots of other things that take precedence in my work time over blogging. That too!
Yet I’ve been spending time here on my site changing things and it felt like it was time to revisit blogging again. I miss the practice of spilling words into the page. I miss connecting with people through their blogs too (I still have a blog reader I check sometimes so if you still blog regularly let me know in the comments…I’d love to follow along).
Part of me wonders if anyone will even see this. Does anyone read blogs anymore? Yet there’s an energy to writing that ‘will anyone see this’ that is lovely. It feels full of possibility once again. Unlike how constraining social media feels these days.
It reminds me of the Vivienne who started blogging many (and I mean many) years ago from my attic apartment in Fernwood, feeling the freedom to write these strange little tales of her life. Then the community she found through these blogs, the homecoming that felt like. Then the blog became the place she’d tell visual stories once her love of photography emerged. I really did find myself and document that process in this format of blogging.
So I’m going to press ‘post’. To begin again. To see how this next chapter unfolds. Perhaps to tell some more visual stories. To spill some more tales. To inhabit this space once again.