As an aspiring(?) translator, historical sources are often a prime source for texts that both warrant translation and are free from intellectual property issues. But they also bring their own difficulties, even beyond the differences in language that can arise over long periods of time.
My previous post ended up being disproportionately about the media I’m consuming, strangely enough. While that’s not typically what I like writing about, it’s still on my mind for different reasons.
I suppose it’s inevitable that my mind would be focused on “looking back” as the year comes to a close, although this would be equally inevitable simply because it’s been so long since I’ve written here.
A new week, a new whatever. Thankfully there was far less in terms of emotional crash yesterday, which is hopeful. I also allowed myself to do a lot less over the weekend, which may have helped.
Brand new look. Same great taste.
I spent some time at ⸺ Hill a couple days ago. It was intended as getting some spiritual reorientation, and ultimately that’s what I got, albeit not in the way that I expected. I’ve been given a lot to think about, but not in the sense of analysis, more just sitting with some things and seeing what happens.
This ended up being a more sedate weekend than expected, although I can’t say I’m unhappy about this. Admittedly, I would’ve liked to have been feeling more adventurous, but even fighting against my innate inertia is something I have less and less stomach for.
I had some down time in Sweet Transit so here we are. It’s been a very low-energy week, which I mostly attribute to getting a long-overdue COVID booster earlier this week. It’s actually been really nice overall—the feeling isn’t fatigue or anything like that, mainly just feeling really relaxed and mellow. “Mellow” being an unusual thing for me.
Starting something anew, it’s easy to get entirely too concerned with making the “first” instance somehow special. This often means that I don’t actually start, since I keep waiting for a sufficiently special [thing] to serve as my first [thing]. So it is with rebooting this blog: I’ve been putting it off for awhile via this specific process.