making things singular in their use, blogging as a little snack
written on 2024-07-16i just finished naming and sorting all unfinished draft posts and they will be published at the same time as this one. tonight i am thinking about blogging as a little snack, in the way that i think a little snack is both small (treat) and reckless (indulgent and without forethought). often i don't blog because i feel very overwhelmed by the prospect of following through, publishing, rereading everything, editing, blah blah blah i would not like to think of this as a chore but as a little snack in the same way i can't stop myself from buying overpriced latte that i don't even really like. i return regularly to laurel schwulst's blogs (here is an example...the original substack that i liked has since been deleted...writing as worlding i think it was called.) as an example of the type of blogging i would like to do. i find this practice meaningful to me and would like to do it more often.
not too relatedly i have been thinking of single-use tools, not in the way tools can be disposable after one use but rather tools that have one very specific purpose only. not in a proprietary way either, which i hate (eg: apple repair toolkits that bundle ultra specific screwdrivers for iphone screws) but more so things in life that are solely tied to one purpose or ritual (even if they can be repurposed). i wonder if there are more examples i can think of but it's very late right now (12:35 am). i'm thinking of making a work desk for myself and i was stressing over its design because i wasn't sure if i wanted it to be extremely designed for working with clay (mdf table top!! pegboard for tools!! waterproof coatings!! grooves to catch dust!! etc.) or if i wanted it to be more general purpose so i could do things like sew, write, paint, on it. but i think, aside from practical considerations, there is a lot of charm in having something be so narrow and specialized in its purpose. more thoughts to come because my head hurts...
bye~