hello everyone. welcome back. it’s the hiatus edition.
i have been thinking about goals and routines and self-imposed rules and structures and so forth. i’ve been writing more about them in this newsletter recently too.
when i checked in on this project at the one year mark, i wrote down some reflections on the project and constructed some hypotheses on what it might look like moving forward. i started this little project with one primary goal (to have a deadline on my calendar every week by which i needed to have created a piece of art) and a few secondary goals (to have a place to experiment with poetry, to catalogue food experiments, to get better at writing about ideas as a form of thinking them through, to do more writing in general) and of course some additional un-confessable goals (attention, admiration, recognition of my genius, professions of love from various wealthy widows, etc.)
over the past year and change though, especially recently, i’ve noticed that this little project is no longer helping with and may be actively hindering the primary goal of making more art and getting better at it. and as Society Opens Up and we Move Past The Pandemic and summer arrives, less and less of my life has to happen indoors on a computer screen, and the newsletter takes more and more of a backseat. becomes more of a chore than a framework for expression. gets squeezed into a smaller and smaller slice of the week until it’s not accomplishing anything on any level.
so all that to say: i’m hitting pause. pulling the plug. this seemed like a good number to do it at.
according to the statistics there were like 100 people who read the last one and given the fact that i could probably name like five of them, i guess that’s something. i don’t know who 95 of you are, but thanks for reading.
i think there will be a future reincarnation of this project but not for a few weeks or maybe months. there’s a lot of camping to do this summer.
i think it will be much less frequent, probably monthly, and i would like to do it in print instead of digitally. there may be unforeseen obstacles to this plan but i think it would be pretty fun.
in the meantime, don’t be a stranger.
thank you all for reading! i’ll catch you on the flip side.