Thank You For 5k ❤
A quick piece to show my appreciation.
It is a good time in my life. A lot of the things I have worked really hard for are finally paying off. I am finally in the place I wanted to live around the people I wanted to be around doing the stuff I wanted to do. Alongside this, other things are coming to fruition that are also exciting to me. I have dedicated a substantial amount of my time to a huge open-source project I have been working on over the past year (and planning for longer.) If you would like to check out that project, by the way, here is a link to the project on Github:
Alongside this, I have also found myself blogging more — which has been nice. As a result, of all the investment, I have found myself now at the front of many things I have worked hard for coming to fruition. Right now is an exciting time in my life, and I am glad to have all of my readers here reading with me, as well.
I feel I am within the capability to do a lot. I enjoy a lot of things, but any hobby eventually becomes work and with this it can be very difficult to push yourself. This blog has done a lot for me on that front, motivation, platforming, networking, and I am appreciative of that. There is a lot that Medium has given me that I do not know where I would be without. When I was hiding myself from all of you, it meant a lot that nobody questioned me or how I expressed myself prior. When I told you who I was, people were very receptive to my experience and heard what I had to say about it, and I appreciated that, as well. Sometimes I would genuinely be having a horrible week or month and a Medium response would warm me out of that pain. When I spoke out for community, I found community here.
I am pretty happy with how things are going now; online, in my personal and professional life, and otherwise. The one recent shortcoming of recent times has certainly been blogging, I am sorry. A lot of my energy has been dedicated to my Olive project, and I am really excited to get this rolled out. I would love to be more consistent, but I find this all very difficult to manage — there simply are not enough hours in the day, and I need time off. I also have other things I do besides work, programming, and blogging. At the moment I am mass producing prickly pear wine. August is a really good month for foraging around here, so around this time I will certainly be collecting and preserving different foods in different ways.
I have tried so many times to lock in my number of articles and dedicate a certain amount of time per day to this. Perhaps I can start this soon; a consistent schedule with an article count each day, at least one. As far as this blog goes, I feel like I have not done enough. I have been on Medium for over three years but I have only written around 500 articles. Ideally, there would be at least one a day — probably more. A lot of my current developments are blooming into large flowers currently, so hopefully with this I can also flourish here. As always, thank you all for all you do. It means the world to me, you have no idea.
