Starting Again

Ten years ago I went through a bit of a creative phase. I’d quit drinking for a while after my divorce and I was reading a ton and started writing a lot more. I guess it started with journaling. I was meditating too and that seemed to calm my mind, but when I wanted to express myself I’d often do it in writing. I was also pretty passionate about minimalism at the time after a friend I deeply respected introduced me to the concepts in 2012 on a trail run. That’s where the name came from. I guess it was partly a place to share my personal writing and musing and partly just somewhere I could put my stuff (aside from Evernote). As it happens I’ve recently been going through another metamorphisis and I found my old wordpress site archive on my laptop (despite having upgraded laptops a bunch of times since then). As it happened the database wasn’t there, so I couldn’t just restore it. Instead I decided to rebuild it and load up a bunch of writing that I’ve saved over the last 10+ years.

Who’s it for

Honestly, I’m not conceited enough to think many people are going to read it or like it if they do. But hey, I’ll put myself out there and in the end, even if it’s just my own creative outlet, it will have achieved something.

Another Restart

The other driver for this new phase is what’s been happening in my personal life. First, for those who aren’t close. A lot has happened in the last 5 or so years. I moved from Toronto to Tbilisi during the end of the first year of covid. I met a beautiful woman here and got remarried. We’ve since had a daughter and that has been inevitably life changing. It’s been in turns joyous and challenging. I’ve struggled to balance, work, life, family, health and my own demons. After returning to Australia for a month at the start of this year, we’ve been looking toward the future and the possibility of relocating (again for me), this time as a family. That’s brought financial pressure and motivated me to step up my game with my business. I’ve really put my head down and probably worked more in the last 3 months then I did in the last 3 years (though I’ve yet to run the numbers on that to verify). I’m also going sober again. So this is the perfecet time for me to pick up the creative passions again and restart the blog. Hope you enjoy it!