So, Typepad, which runs the software for this blog, is shutting down at the end of September.
They've always been a rather sketchy, unfocused sort of company – not atypical that they would close down with just a month's notice – I've wanted for years to transfer this to a more robust platform, preferably with better graphics than the ones I kludged together here.
A. found me a friend, N., who has helped design a new webpage, including the blog. But since I was fuzzy and tired for the past couple of years (and, I think, perhaps longer), I kept not getting back to him.
I'm hoping to get it together so there's a webpage soon – with the blog and with other stuff. I am indeed more energetic and focused over the past few months – had several days of long walks in the past couple of weeks, that's unheard of – so it will happen, and perhaps even before this blog closes down.
In any case the texts of the blog, though perhaps not the small pictures, will be transferred over. Plus a page as an analyst, a page as a musicologist, and the published writings.
Now I realize an associated question would be: why bother? A blog, narcissism, inflation, amateurism, AI and world conflicts are overpowering everything, who cares?
It's not narcissism, it's a perfectly normal response to aging (see: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/31/the-worm-at-the-core-on-the-role-of-death-in-life-solomon-greenberg-pyszczynski-review). I think I'll finish the book I'm working on, and perhaps more – but I like this blog; it is a chunk of me, and I'd like for it to continue to exist for a time, at least.
And no, I don't think AI and world conflicts are overpowering everything. We'll all keep plugging along....
So. More soon. Depending on me, perhaps very soon.