A Never-Ending Tide – The First Update of 2024 · 11:19pm January 12th
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I’ll level with you, readers: everything still feels almost unreal.
Just this morning, I woke to a reminder that one year ago, I’d written the newest entry in a regular collection of “New Year” posts, or posts about what I was looking forward to and working toward in the coming year.
Today, I don’t have one of those. And last year’s was unexpectedly derailed as is, so looking back drives right into a disaster that I’m still personally enmeshed in.
The short of it, if you’re just now stopping by, is that a few days before Thanksgiving a titanic landslide completely annihilated my parent’s property and took the life of my dad. Everything on site was destroyed. You can read more about what I’ve said up until now here, as this post is going to deliver updates for what came after that point and where things are planned to go from here. Both for my immediate efforts and in this coming year.
Obviously this post is going to be a little different than normal, but I hope you all understand. I’m still dealing with the grief, as well as still physically facing the reality of what happened every single day. I know I’m not at 100%, but there’s not much I can do about that right now except keep pushing forward. But as you, readers, have been left without updates for almost a month, and I definitely don’t like leaving the site quiet for that long, today marks a semi-return to things “as normal.”
As to what that means, and what I’ve been up to, and all that other news, mixed with a little bit of raw emotion, hit the jump.
Do what you gotta do. I'm sure all your readers will still be here when you're ready.