The Thursday Dispatch - 11 December 2025
One thing about going through this whole process of importing old blog posts into a digital journal so that you can then take that journal and print it into a book is you have to edit some of those posts. Things like embed codes for music players don’t translate to the printed version well. The more regular text, the better.
With editing these posts, I’m also rereading them. I’m finding I still agree with much of what I’ve written about the personal paths I’m taking. Honestly, if you want to know what values I’m standing on, read my site. I’m truly an open book here in some regards. I’m obviously not sharing everything about me here. The online world can be creepy sometimes, so I’m never going to expose too much here. But, I’ve written some really raw posts here at times.
I know I’ve said it recently, but I’m often talking to people I know through my site. I don’t always get to meet up with them and have the convos I want. Even when we do meet, sometimes we just never make it to what’s on my mind. So, this ends up being an uninterrupted train of thought for me. But, these are things I want to talk about with people who matter to me. I feel like anyone reading it should know if it’s really directed at them or not.
Then there’s the other side of reviewing these posts and that’s the reviewing of them in the first place. This is talked about often with Bullet Journals, but the daily, weekly, and monthly reviews. Review daily to see what needs to be flushed to the next day and how feelings might have changed, review weekly to encapsulate how the week has gone and what’s you’ve learned and so on, and the same thing monthly. Those reviews give a bigger picture of yourself and it’s an important step with journaling to measure your own growth. Sometimes you see things you didn’t even see when you wrote initially. Sometimes new information has come along in between time to change your perspective, which you can jot down now to show how that perspective was shifted.
I’m working backwards through my old posts. So far I’ve worked back through August and am now plugging through July. This current iteration of my site really took flight in May, so not too much farther to go. I look forward to seeing the final product. In the meantime, I’m also working in the other direction, entering posts as I write them. That’s a much easier process than going the backwards route.
But definitely review your writings if you do any kind of journaling. It’s a way of looking at yourself in different dimensions and you’ll see things you maybe hadn’t considered previously.
Photo of the Week
Someone needed attention while I was doing my morning writing. Griffey has become very expressive with his paws over the years. He paws at me when he wants attention. He’ll often rest a paw on my arm when I’m busy at my computer desk. He wants to be noticed.
This Past Week
Weekly Links
- The world needs social sovereignty by Ben Werdmuller
- Why RSS matters by Ben Werdmuller, again
- Dishonesty is a rejection of life by Annie
- On 10 Years of Writing a Blog Nobody Reads by Joe Boudreau
- I can totally relate.