All this happened, more or less.
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Listen:
I don’t know what the name is for a blog like this. It’s a micro-blog… except that means something else, of which I have at least one. A micro / memory blog? Essentially, it’s a multi-year diary in blog form and the goal is that after years of regular entries, it provides an “on this day over the years” view.
This all started when someone brought my attention to Hobonichi notebooks. On browsing their website I stumble across the 5 year “Life Book” which is a journal with a page for each calendar day. Each page is laid out with the same 5 sections, one each for the next five years. This gives you a look back at years gone by as you are filling in any given day. I decided I must have it.
Starting to use the book I realised it would be nice to have a digital equivalent. Why have I never set out a blog like this? It’s obviously possible. Me being me, I bent over backwards to implement such a blog as a statically generated site using Obsidian as the CMS. The same daft stack (currently) as my main blog.
As I was developing the blog and setting out my writing in this shape, it made me think of Kurt Vonnegut a lot (although I am prone to this). His writing about time: “All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist … It’s just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once that moment is gone it is gone forever.”.
So, these are my moments, as close as I can get to them not being beads on a string. And browsing them is as close as I can get to being unstuck in time. “If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.”