When I returned to blogging toward the end of last year, the original purpose was to find a place where I could share my political thoughts, without enraging my Facebook friends, without all of the vitriol of social media, with a method of protecting my anonymity, and in a place were I could expound on the reasoning behind my views with no restrictions on what I say or how I say it. I kind of envisioned myself as a political essayist without an audience.
It was a wonderful coincidence that Sunny happened to dust off her blog at almost exactly the same time, because I quickly found myself dropping by to see what she had to say, which quite frequently inspired me to write about stuff outside of the political realm. As a result, I'm no longer a single subject writer and I've unintentionally freed myself to write more frequently. I kind of feel like this little blog has turned into an online version of a pen pal relationship between Sunny and me. The major difference is that our letters aren't necessarily directly written to each other, and anyone in the world can read our correspondences.
I also feel like blogging is almost an anachronistic endeavor, which I think is part of the draw. Nobody writes letters anymore, but this is damned close. By the same token, it seems that nobody blogs anymore, but that can't quite be true, otherwise blog platforms would have disappeared. I also suspect that pen pals have become a rare thing as well, but I feel like I have one in Sunny. I'm happy that we've stumbled across one another again.
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