On top of confusion and the magnificent help it led to, I have begun doing something.
Of course, it’s about writing – and the first article has been put there already, just now!
So, maybe you would like to follow the link, read the article, and look around a bit, sniffing in the smells of saw dust and welding wire? – While I’m still building something that will become useful, I hope.
Longing For Childhood – at All of Life XL.
Please remember to put on a hard hat when entering! Most of the interior is fixed with scotch and could fall down, and it will most likely be changed later, but for now, it helps indicate what will become of it all.
Currently, you’ll find comment fields there, but I’m still not sure if they should be there in the future, so, if you comment (and you are welcome to do that), it may be hidden or removed later – or maybe not, depending on what I decide is best for that place.
I am filling in some older articles, and that’s one of the main elements –I’m following
‘s suggestion of making a kind of library, and in such one, it matters that there are things to read – that the shelves are full of things to discover. It takes some time, and it will happen in parallel with all the other things going on, and with new articles being added as well.My aim is then to try to make it all come alive, by making collections, overviews, summaries, and similar. But the XL site is for that deep dive. It will not be for the busy people. For those, I’ll maintain this site on Substack, renaming it to Moments of Life, so that it is clear that it is no longer an attempt to cover all of life.
The moments will be more emotional (thanks for that suggestions,
!), and shorter – aiming at about half of my typical writing length of around 1200 words, so, 5-600 words as a goal (like this article). The XL articles, on the other hand, can become as long as you can imagine them – but they may not always end up like that: short is also allowed there.And I will speak more directly into the community fragments that still exist on Substack, even if they, by large, are not for me – but that small bubble with people I have come to know, plus whoever else might enter along the way, will be the people in this, the reception of my “library” – thanks for reminding me that the world actually does exist,
:)And, as a third element, I am looking at what a regular or irregular newsletter could look like – what should be in it for it to be interesting, and how much work and regularity can I commit myself to.
The last bit is about art. I love art, and even though I have been painting and photographing during times, I’m not doing it right now. But I want to pick up at least the camera and go out to make some photos, so that they can become part of my big, virtual painting of life.
So, that’s it for an invitation to take a look at a building lot ;)