Overview of Draumr

It is a little under 3 years, but close enough to call it. Looking at the last few posts in Draumr I remember that I had intended to close the website down for what I thought would be a couple of months during our family move from QLD to NSW.

However, after closing there was a completely unanticipated and really distressing blow-out with a friend. We both said things. I was utterly confused and really really pissed off. All communication was severed. After a couple unanswered attempts they replied to me this year but again clear communication did not happen. I do not think I worded myself in a way that was understood, or maybe they do not have the resource to give understanding. Anyways they asked that I not email again, so there you have it; the WTF of human interactions. I had no expectation of being able to re-connect (that is I had no desire to enforce an expectation on them), but I did hope maybe we could at least sort out what happened and see if any friendship remained.

As anyone reading this can assume by the fact that I walked away from this website for 3 years, and even now feel a need to explain a bit and talk a bit about this blow-out, whilst I am past the burn of it, I am not forgetting of it. I do not easily accept unexplained disconnections, not after years of investment in a friendship.

2019 was a particularly distressing, rough period and I was struggling to keep all of my reactions and responses to Others in the open, unquestioning, sisterly manner they may have preferred. I learned that seemingly solid connections are in truth tenuous and fragile. By the end of October 2019 I had thoroughly fallen out of love with the process of interacting with people online. I had zero desire to be anywhere near this website, this blog, and this forum. I started another website where I could paint with different colours, lay out words in a fresh blog and still place outlay, while being removed of this space as all that had been woven through it spun in its own directions.

I left this website feeling heartily disappointed. And 3 years is what it has taken to be able to look back at this space, sort through the leaf debris on this quiet forest floor and find interesting pebbles.

For now, I have sorted through the Blog posts, selecting some to be open to public. Most pages are closed and removed from the Menu. Time Woven remains my main hub for outlay. So this space is functioning as an Archive of that time.

If notification of this post makes it to your inbox and you would rather not be connected here anymore, use the Account pages to delete your membership. I will not be doing it as admin of this space. This will be a self-determined disconnect.