Yet another rebirth

In September 2025 – now more than six months ago – Typepad shut down its business with a month’s warning. I had been using them for this blog for a long time….

I suppose it was silly to expect any more notice, or help, from a dying tech company, especially something that had been an also-ran even in its early years. For a long time I’d thought that this blog, which I started on 14 May 2006 – in two days that will be twenty years ago! – should be moved to a more robust platform. And it needed a better look, with more color and more specifics and more, well…

I’d been dithering over making my own new website for several years. Asked A. for advice, and he referred me to several people, some of whom were clearly operating at a big corporate level, with appropriate fees, and others of whom were… frankly awful. Ah well.

N., a friend of A., and a musician and a lovely guy, agreed to help. He created this website in late 2025, but then I was feeling rather wobbly and faint and off-planet, so I rarely did anything to give him materials or answer questions. Fortunately N. is kind and patient….

And also, fortunately, N. got the otherwise irritating Typepad people to port the ENTIRE blog, including the little pictures which I treasure, over to this site. (Some of the little pictures aren’t working yet, we’ll fix that.) And, miraculously, people’s comments were also ported over. So that was very heartening: nothing lost.

Then in late February I wanted to do a public post for the IAAP (the big international Jungian organization) and include the site’s address, so we finally put the website online.

Is this more information than you needed… I’m a garrulous old man, what do you expect.

Across the months I have piled up five or six blog drafts on various idle topics – I’ll look at them to see if they are still worth putting up. And I’ve had a group of blog posts about Barcelona written between 2019 and 2023 that I would like to edit and put up – they’re not exactly current but I enjoyed writing them. And I think once this is running, and I’m used to how it works, it would be nice to just write more posts.

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Blog, thoughts, writing. Implied creativity and connection, though also egotism, and a somewhat old-fashioned style of communcation. But frankly I don’t care about possible negative implications: as I tell my analysands, absolutely everything has something wrong with it (I mean, I was reading Adorno for years, so) – but we can also choose the positive meanings. And for me this is about the connection and the creativity – finding out who I am by writing it on the page – and that is all life.

And, as I’ll be seventy this December, choosing things that have life in them seems far more interesting than the alternatives.

Have I told you that we’re planning a seventieth birthday party, with a lot of people and food and musicians, for this December? And that I may be giving a series of Jungian lectures in the US in late 2028?

I’m glad to be back.