to my friends i find myself unable to cope with social media at the moment. a recent dizzying dip in my general chronic illness status (greater than usual disruption to my heart rate, blood pressure and breathing; increased joint and nerve pain, disequilibrium, fever and decreased overall muscle control, markedly depressed mental aptitude and mood) means signing in to tumblr feels at present like standing at a busy city intersection in a cyberpunk film every time i go to log on, i get some kind of aversion reaction akin to a sense of dangling my feet out over a vertiginous gap. i'm trying to do a better job at tuning in and responding to whatever my autonomous nervous system is trying to tell my brain (beyond the quotidien holding-screen of "a virus has damaged your brain stem: searching for connection..."), so i'm checking out for now. drop me a line at [email protected] (if you'd like to write, i'd like to receive it) send speculative fiction podcast recommendations, updates on your writing projects, pictures of your plants and cats; snippets of knowledge about healing through plants and herbs, links to free audiobooks, your goodreads profile (especially if you write reviews, so i can lurk on your bookshelves [ghost emoji]), or a story about your day. imagining i'd fare better in that venue is only a theory, but perhaps being out of all this noise and down to a plain text volume could help me find landmarks in the (brain)fog. forget-me-not 🌱
