{"id":7993,"date":"2022-02-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cariluna.com\/hey-there\/"},"modified":"2022-02-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T00:00:00","slug":"hey-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cariluna.com\/wp\/hey-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey there"},"content":{"rendered":"

At some point in the past, you very kindly signed up to hear from me once in a while. It\u2019s been quite some time since I last sent one of these out. Some difficult professional things happened, some difficult life things happened, the pandemic happened and…well, I just didn\u2019t feel much like talking. You know how it goes. But I\u2019ve missed this, and I\u2019m ready to start talking again.\u00a0This is not to say that I\u2019ve been entirely silent all this time. I\u2019ve been on Twitter. Oh boy have I been on Twitter. I won\u2019t bore you with a lamentation about the ways that Twitter has changed, because we all know it. I\u2019m still on there all the damn time, and I still get good things out of it, but it sucks that I can no longer assume that when I say something on Twitter, I\u2019m mostly speaking to a well-intentioned, friendly audience who is disposed to assume good faith in me, and in whom I can assume good faith.\u00a0I am not leaving Twitter. I like a hell of a lot of you who I know on there, and we do still have fun, don\u2019t we? Yeah. We do. But because of the changing ways in which I find myself interacting with Twitter\u2014a manner of interaction that involves a not-insignificant amount of self-protection and self-editing and self-censoring\u2014because it sucks when a tweet goes viral and the Nazis come for you, and because it sucks when some asshole quote-tweets you in a mean-spirited, willfully misinterpreted way for clout or some cheap dunk, and because it also sucks when you put something out onto the timeline that you really care about and it\u2019s met with silence… Because of all of that, I\u2019m finding that I\u2019m missing this TinyLetter.\u00a0I miss the opportunity to be in open communication about my thoughts, to talk to people with my guard down a little more. I miss talking to a group who has chosen to be here with me. I miss talking at length without an eye on the character count. So I\u2019m starting this newsletter up again, because I want to talk with you. I want to be in conversation with you.I don\u2019t intend to clutter up your inbox. I\u2019ll send these out once or possibly twice a month. I\u2019ll let you know what I\u2019m thinking about this or that, and I want to hear back from you if you\u2019re so inclined. One of the things I like about TinyLetter is that you can email me right back. Please feel free to do so. I\u2019d love to hear from you. And if you just want to hang out and read, that\u2019s great, too.\u00a0Things were already hard when I last sent these letters around, and they\u2019ve gotten exponentially harder. The proper response to that, as I see it, is community. Build more community. So here we are. Thanks for sticking around through my silence. I\u2019m glad to be back.\u00a0Yours ever true,Cari\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At some point in the past, you very kindly signed up to hear from me once in a while. It\u2019s been quite some time since I last sent one of these out. Some difficult professional things happened, some difficult life …<\/p>\n

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