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This blog is a sort of table of contents, linking to all the threads I've posted to Twitter since I started using that social media platform in October of 2012.
So far, I've linked to threads going up through September of 2018.
Every once in a while I like to do a post talking about how my life was going during the times I was writing these threads on Twitter.
As I've mentioned before, I'd been having a sort of roller-coaster ride getting started as a consultant since mid-2016. I ended up stepping back from one client in early 2018 and started working to find ways to build my own book of business -- not so dependent on a small group of folks who would hand me business -- through 2018.
Through the summer of 2018, I had a few short-term projects. They tided me over. In August of 2018, I secured one project that lasted until January of 2019. And then, in October of 2018, I secured another project that lasted until March of 2019. These two projects really helped me finish out 2018 without having too much to worry about financially, which was a relief.
If you look through my threads from early 2018 and compare them to the threads from September 2018 going forward, you'll see that my political activity is a lot less focused on attending events and a lot more on phone banking.
I was feeling a lot less welcome at big events. In fact, at some events, I sensed some hostility. I also wanted to be effective in getting out the vote for the 2018 elections. I knew the best way to make that happen was by doing canvassing and by doing phone banking. So I ended up doing phone banking and phasing out my attendance at meetings and events.
As I look back on this time, I also remember with pleasure how many fun books I read, as well as how many enjoyable art events I attended in Colorado. I'm really thankful for all these experiences.
As I've mentioned before -- and I'm sure I'll mention it again -- Twitter's platform has gone through a number of changes over the years. Due to some of these changes, I believe, the platform has twisted each of my threads through 2018 and 2019 out of chronological order.
What this means is, the individual threads don't read in their original order a lot of times. The first and second tweets usually stick together well. But then, from the third tweet down, the thread can be slightly, moderately, or extremely jumbled up. Some threads are in worse shape than others. The threads in the worst shape are the ones that depend on a chronological or numerical kind of flow. They're the most noticeably jumbled up.
Honestly, I'd spent months agonizing over whether to link more threads to this blog at all.
Finally I decided to link them. I feel it's important to make this table of contents. When all is said and done, we might be talking about 1,200 threads I've done on Twitter. That's 1,200 reviews, not only of books, movies, theater, and art exhibitions, but also of political and social events, in my home state of Colorado and even, sometimes, outside of Colorado.
I'm an average to slightly-below-average person. My reviews and discussions aren't important because they reflect a strong mind. They're important because there are a lot of discussions here, in as plain a language as I can present, about a wide array of experiences, from an average person's point of view. In the future, as people analyze how average people felt about certain things, hopefully my reflections can help add to the data for that analysis.
So the incoherence of some of the threads is less important, in my opinion, than making easily accessible my life as data for people who decide in the future to analyze how average people felt about things.
In the meantime, while we're all waiting (hoping? praying?) for the future, I hope you also find these threads enjoyable.
Thank you for reading.
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