the rundown
Have been meaning to post here, but between not feeling so good at times, being tired often and also busy here and there, I have not always had the energy, time or inclination.
When I had been able to do so I stayed for a night or longer here and there at the place I routinely hole up in when I can afford it, but since last week and through this month as well as all of next month (unless something becomes available somehow), I have been sleeping on a couch on an outside porch.
It is comfortable enough, sometimes anyway. On cooler nights I tuck into my very warm sleeping bag, so there is no worries about being cold. Yet I am hoping I can find something to move into come November, whether it is for the winter again or a more permanent abode.
The truth is that sometimes I am feeling completely worn out, distracted and downright sad to the core, deeply despairing even, although suffering quietly for the most part as usual. Nothing new there.
However I still try to keep doing what I can, where I can even if it is a minimal effort and mostly keeping busy with various things.
These include having set up a new team blog I set up concerning mental health matters in Vermont, here; which I had done late last month just a day following my last post on this particular blog post, something I did to help distract me from my inner turmoil that I have been struggling with for quite some time now.
Just a couple of weeks after I started the Beyond VSH blog, an article was published within the Sunday editions of both the Times Argus/Rutland Herald newspaper, here.
Early last week, as a direct result of the news article, someone in the area donated a laptop with a wi-fi card to me, so I could write, get online and blog more easily especially during those times when I would otherwise have no such access and badly needed it to get some work done or to simply keep busy with. More on this here [via Beyond VSH blog].
Following that I was named Vermont's most vigilant blogger, by Seven Days j-blogger Cathy Resmer (802 Online), here. My own blog post on the subject is here [via Norsehorse's Home Turf].
Then Shay Totten, editor and publisher of the Vermont Guardian -- an independent statewide weekly newspaper, asked me to write a first person article concerning blogs and blogging, why and how I began blogging as well as about those blogs and bloggers I have come across so far, especially within Vermont's own blog scene or blogsphere. Read more about it, here.