the start of something new

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For a long while now I have been missing the “old internet”. 

The humor

the poetry

the aesthetics

the optimism

and most importantly 

the heart. 

The internet is so changed now, 

the world is so changed now.

I feel as though hope used to be infused like an IV fluid into our media. 

Into our books 

our movies

our music

our internet presences,

and it just doesn’t feel like it is anymore.

Lately it’s been so hard to find hope and optimism in my entertainment. Maybe I’m looking in the wrong places. I don’t know.

I just finished reading 100 Days of Sunlight by Abbie Emmons. I disagree with the way Weston and the MC’s grandparents went about getting the MC back on her feet, but I wholeheartedly agree with the hope-filled message of getting back up when life knocks you down.

This book came out in 2019 and it reminded me of how hopeful books for YA and middle grade were back then. And now I’m listening to the playlist the author created for the book and I’m just so in awe of how energetic and optimistic these secular artists were. I forgot just how much I loved listening to secular music back then. And now, I rarely listen to it. Unless it’s indie or Korean. 

All that to say, it’s not that I want to stay stuck in the past. 

Times

places

people 

change.

That’s a part of life. What I want is to just help make the 2020s a good time too. Or at the very least, a little better for someone somewhere. Writers, musicians, singers, bloggers, YouTubers, they came together and they made my youth… good. They helped me dream. Helped me smile. Helped me see the light as I faced my own battles. Helped me keep my gaze on a hoped-for better tomorrow.

And it is my dream, my prayer to get to do the same for the next generation as we continue our journey into the 2020s. Whether that’s through the books I’m working on or something else. We’re in an especially dark period, and when I look back on these times, I want to know I tried.

This blog here is actually one way that I’ve set out to do that, to try. But I want to do more in the online space. I want to lean into more of the aspects and things that made me, in my youth, fall in love with what the internet could do. 

So, I’m starting a new blog here on Blogger! 🥳

While this one here will remain my journal blog, I want to treat the new one as my Tumblr, my Instagram. I’m planning on posting poetry, aesthetics, song lyrics, and quotes. I’ll be reaching into the ocean of the old internet for inspiration. Into the optimism, the youthfulness, the newness, the sunlight and open fields. I aim to search for the old internet’s best. Because no, the old internet wasn’t perfect. Very few things in this world are. But my aim is to cup what sunlight and glitter the old internet did have to offer into my tired, worn out hands, lift it out, and bring it here into the present for us to enjoy in our times. 

So without further ado, my dear, dear reader, allow me to invite you over to my second space. 

Welcome to twilight skies and ocean waves.

I hope you enjoy it! 😊

~

Now then, reader, I wanna hear from you!

Comment down below a piece of media (can be a song or book or film or from the web, etc.) that came into the world in the 2020s and was awash in sunlight, awash in hope.

“Something New” The Score.