I've been hemming and hawing over starting this chronicle for some time, and finally got around to making it happen. Now I've been wringing my hands over what generic template to use. None of them are totally "me." I find myself wanting to create my own template from scratch, you know, learn CSS and generate some original graphics or artwork and tweak everything to my precise specifications. Of course, those things would take considerable time and effort, and while I might find those projects interesting, I simply feel anxiety about them in this context. The idea of this blog (a word that gives me pause, but it is what it is) revolves around my efforts to deconstruct the harmful fictions in my life and replace them with celebratory truths (insomuch as truth is accessible - perhaps "celebratory educated guesses" would be more apt). So, first things first.
If it is my ideas that are important (to me, or others), it doesn't matter if the instantly editable template for this blog is any one thing or another, as long as it is legible and doesn't actively offend me aesthetically. There's nothing wrong with me for not teaching myself how to make my own template right now. And, happily, there's no reason that I couldn't teach myself these skills in the future should I so desire. So - today, hummingbird silhouettes it is. And tomorrow it could be something else. And in five years everything will be completely different. Tomorrow, things will be a little different. And so it goes. SO: spending emotional currency on this issue? Useless. I'm stopping! And committing to this lackluster first post. Because everything starts somewhere, and goes until it ends.
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