this is a depressing post, read at your own risk! So it's official, after discussin, thinking of maybe trying, going to couple therapy, taking a break, it's clear, my wife and I are separating for good. It's a bit sad, but at the same time it's exciting to be moving on. It will be hard but it's also new. I tend to see the positive in all things... I also slowly moving toward self-hosting more of my projects. With lucid.observer getting almost launched, I've started to list my meditation and dream on there. It feels good to focus on one thing only, and have a place to record my dreams, my reflections, my meditations. I've posted a few dreams, and my latest guided meditation. Go check it out on gopher! lucid.observer I'm planing to work a bit more with Solene, this Friday to activate gemini as well. I'll see what will live on the gemini side of the server, but so far it will be a small server with local email, gopher and gemini hosting. There might be a small bulletin board too :D I've backed up my gopher here. I am questioning moving out of sdf for gophering and moving it all to lucid.observer. I had a weird interaction on COM the other week and it made me want to move on from SDF. Although I'm developing good friendship here, and it's the only online community I partake on, I was quite hurt and made me take a bit of a break. This gopher hole is filled with sadness, suffering, loneliness. Filled with failed attempt to list my music, to create a garden, to write poetry. Starting fresh might be a good move. Well, with all that is happening in my life right now you might understand where this desire to start fresh comes from. It made me think about all of use going minimal, text only, gopher, gemini and such. To a certain degree we want less computer time, less complexity. I was ready solderpunk blazing star post: gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/0/~solderpunk/phlog/embracing-the-universe-like-a-blazing-star.txt I liked it. I've started a few years back a lot of what he is listing there and I feel there should be some sort of guide of liberation from the modern web... The more account you delete, the less dependant you become from the web, the more you realize that there isn't a lot that you need. As we are preparing for my wife to leave the house, we are clearing up all the thing we don't want. I don't know really what I want to keep. I feel like I want to get rid of so many things... There is a part of me who built a persona for my wife, that I don't even know if I need or want anymore. Writing is always there. Meditation is always there. Music, although maybe not electronic, is still there. Drawing too! Karate, theatre... Well I guess a lot wants to stick around! But reducing the amount of stuff will be healing. I will also move from this house at one point. Maybe this year, maybe in a couple years. It will be awfully lonely to be in here... I have a feeling my daughter might not want to come and visit too often. It gets so dark here, and so cold. We'll see how it turns out. I was feeling quite lonely in here even with my wife, so it might be different? Could I invite other people to live in here? I might move to the Ashram too at a certain point. A in-between, for a while... I don't know. But I feel my 'stuff' needs to light up so I can be ready to move when needed.