hitting the wall
Aug. 20th, 2025 12:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I'm putting the Substack column aside for a while. It's just too wearing, looking at the cruelties and misbehavior and idiocy and outright lawlessness of the current regime and writing commentary about it that essentially mirrors what others write.
I need some time not spending up to four days a week writing two columns for no money, columns that are at best depressing.
If I were still at a newspaper doing this, I'd have people who were in the business to bounce ideas off, and some support for the research needed. I am not Robert Reich, who has paid staff. I have me and a computer and occasionally a bookshelf.
And I want to do some lifegiving things for myself, like making more music and creating art and (as long as ICE is not present anywhere near me) going out into the park and breathing the green air of trees. I want to not have the heaviness of the column hanging over my head. I would rather play my flutes, and guitar, and maybe try harp. We have one that belongs to my husband, but he doesn't play often.
And I want to write things like poetry and fiction that don't require me to wear my reductive Inverted-Pyramid-style brain.
So I will notify people, later this week, that it will be more occasional and probably less political.
I need some time not spending up to four days a week writing two columns for no money, columns that are at best depressing.
If I were still at a newspaper doing this, I'd have people who were in the business to bounce ideas off, and some support for the research needed. I am not Robert Reich, who has paid staff. I have me and a computer and occasionally a bookshelf.
And I want to do some lifegiving things for myself, like making more music and creating art and (as long as ICE is not present anywhere near me) going out into the park and breathing the green air of trees. I want to not have the heaviness of the column hanging over my head. I would rather play my flutes, and guitar, and maybe try harp. We have one that belongs to my husband, but he doesn't play often.
And I want to write things like poetry and fiction that don't require me to wear my reductive Inverted-Pyramid-style brain.
So I will notify people, later this week, that it will be more occasional and probably less political.