It was a dark and stormy night...
As excellent as it is to start my blog with a cliche, the previous line is, in fact, true. It is both dark and stormy, and while I'm not exactly writing by candlelight, the power is indeed out at my house. It used to be that during blackouts, I'd be forced to find something non-electronic to pass the time, but my laptop is fully charged and I'm able to type this to post later. While the power outage experience may seem to be falsified by the advent of portable electronics, this particular power outage is actually falsified itself. Dad is working on the wiring, so we've been plunged into temporary, voluntary, darkness.
Usually, during the one or two power outages that seem to happen every year, I feel a peculiar bond with the people in my neighborhood. Though I haven't ever talked to the majority of them, and haven't a sense of what they may be doing at the time, everyone on the grid shares the spine tingling sensation of being pitched into blackness...at least for a minute or so. I'm just now realizing that the mystique surrounding power outages may actually come from the knowledge that I'm not alone in the experience. Right now, I just feel like I'm in the dark.
I guess for my first post I should provide some sort of description of what I'm planning to put in here. Unfortunately, I haven't quite figured that out yet. I'm thinking that it will be composed mostly of writings or thoughts that I don't feel like posting on Blue Kaffee, but that I don't feel like keeping completely private. Hopefully it will encourage me to write more, because I'm starting to feel like I should.
I have another blog, it's a joint project with my bro, called Apertures and Ink. We've both committed to posting one photograph or drawing each day for a year. While we've managed to fall a little behind every once in a while, it's actually going fairly well! We're each almost 75 images in now. There's a link in the sidebar...and there's a link here, too.
Ah, the light is back, and the thunder and lightning rage on outside.
Until next time!
