Been spending a ton of time on Threads in the past few weeks. Unfortunately, the Christmas holiday teamed up with the algorithm to bring me enough posts about grief and people losing their parents/siblings/friends/cats/dogs/birds to make me want to go back to bed and hide for a month.
So, I’m back here for now. I’m also thinking it’s time for me to jumpstart some analog journaling, especially with the New Year approaching. Social media posting and texting with friends aside, I really haven’t processed all the sadness churning through my psyche in the past month. I keep waiting to fall off an emotional cliff, but it hasn’t happened yet.
Meanwhile, I’m slowly backing away from our very conservative Catholic parish, which is clearly much more of a MAGA breeding ground than I imagined. Learning this has been disheartening and sad. I’ll finish up the CCD year, but I plan an indefinite break from the place. I have so much more to write about that, but not yet. Not here.
So much lost this year. It’s exhausting to have to let go of so much.