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SheWrites January 21, 2026 at 12:26:23 PM

Thanks for including me on your blog roll! :) I look forward to watching your blog develop and learning more about you and how you see the world. Big props for deciding to make some changes and to return to things you'd let go. I hope we get to see some of your art, and I can't wait to read your book reviews! :)

Replied on: January 23, 2026 at 12:33:05 PM

Of course! I found a lot of your entries extremely interesting and look forward to reading more. Thank you so much for your kind words! I am trying not to put a deadline on everything, as that usually just causes action paralysis, so we shall see how it goes. Slow and steady!

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Bastiano January 19, 2026 at 1:54:38 PM

re: The Forgotten Art of Self Sufficiency it was a pleasure to read this post. I mourn for the days where a town, village, or even street actually knew each-other and cared about its neighbours. this hits the spot growing up in italy, i recall bakeries were pivotal centres of town/village/agglomerate-of-homes life. sure, convenience was already at the doors (it wasn't uncommon to buy bread at the supermarket), but going to the baker at any time of the morning meant - with good probabilities - also witnessing pleasant chit chatter between baker and clients, their hellos, well wishes, serendipitous life updates, laughs, dialect. now i live in Ireland and find that most bakeries are 'cafes', and i miss that dimension of local-ity. here sometimes I still find some chit chatter in butchers and fishmongers (to my great pain - not in all of them) which is the most pleasant of the feelings. with the global increase in online-ness, alienation, general bleakness, i wish we could go back to local comfort. we are citizen of a global concerned world, and we should find some respite somewhere, hopefully. maybe we could/should try to find it in the physical space immediately around us; small shops aimed at being part of a community, welcoming, open, not dominated by capitalistic logic. reading of others longing for a community that could serve each other warms my heart. thank you for your post. ps. not sure if it was intended, but thought of letting you know your /contact/ page is 404'ing. ._. this reply was meant to be an email to save screen space on your guestbook

Replied on: January 20, 2026 at 9:12:00 AM

Hi Bastiano! Thank you so much for leaving this lovely message. I'm so sorry about the contact page, I have a bad habit of procrastinating on details so I told myself I would work on it AFTER pushing out my first post. I see you left your email, so I shall reply to you in more detail there ^^