Raisins

 Preamble

This is interesting: I thought this blog had evaporated into the ether of the land of the lost internet (which is where I'm pretty sure my hotmail account went). I got an email saying there hasn't been activity on it in so long that it would be deleted soon. Turns out that was the motivation I needed in order to start writing again. 

It's not that I haven't been writing at all; I am a fairly prolific letter writer in general; but since my uncle died last summer I have not even been doing that much, since he was my main correspondent. I started writing to one of my former teachers in California who I am still in touch with but she doesn't respond regularly, so it was pretty one sided and that doesn't inspire me to keep it up.

But I feel welcomed back by Blogger now to continue my random thoughts and create more first person essays (are these essays? not really, but that's okay!) so here I go!

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