Present Joys

I haven’t regularly posted in over a decade, but as time passes, I realize more and more how much I enjoy documentation. I’ve got a lot going on, but I think it’s worth taking the time to write. It’s a good time to start again.

I had such a great time on Tumblr back in the day, but the community is long gone, and I wanted some more control over my data. So (for the very few who are interested:) I’ve migrated my old Tumblr blog to my own web server. Everything has been moved over to the fantastic Kirby CMS through a painstaking process of web scraping, Perl scripting, and many regex operations. I’m pretty proud of how I’ve been able to transfer my old posts in a way that maintains their original spirit—and even more proud that old hyperlinks should all still work. As you might imagine, I have plenty of things I could have posted about over the past handful of years, and I plan to add some of that content and backdate it, just for purposes of organization.

We had an absolutely dreamy ten years in our home in Clintonville, but for the past few years we’d grown increasingly squeezed-in. After pursuing an expansion project in the form of building a second story on our detached garage and hitting a dead end, last summer we determined a move was necessary. So we ended up with a new house in Columbus’ historic Olde Towne East neighborhood.

Bonebrake is the project of a lifetime. In the posts that follow, I’ll attempt to keep track of what we are doing with it—things small and large. The work never stops.

I haven’t tumblred in quite a while! This is partially because I didn’t want to disturb the Meryl Streep photograph at the top of my website. But also because it’s been a crazy past few weeks. First, I counseled for a week at church camp in Geneva, Ohio. I have included a photo of me with actual children as photographic evidence of this. If you look closely, you can see the smoke from a campfire behind me. Camp was superlative. If possible, I will tell you more about it later.

Upon my return home, I found my house with no electricity. We spent a whole week without power! It was too hot inside my house to enjoy playing accordion or knit. I ended up reading pretty much all day long. I got all the way through Christ of the Covenants and made a good dent in The English Hymn: Its Development and Use in Worship, a fascinating survey of English hymnody written in 1915.

So I have only just got back to normal life (read: accordion, freelance work, sewing). And this includes tumblring. Tomorrow I will post a shirtmaking update! I also need to recap a recent concert. But mostly I just wanted to say hello, tumblr. I hope you’re doing well.