"I am so lucky, to be here in this house with all of you."

[seahearth]

So my thought with this is I can put things here that are generally about my life and not personally directed, and they'll be generally accessible, and I won't have to worry about who I'm writing them to and not writing them to.

For example: I have just been to the GP to very broadly discuss hormone treatment. Broadly as in, I don't know if I would want this or when I would want it but I would like to understand it better as an option. (What I understand currently is that the receptionist who said a regular GP would have the information I want had an incomplete picture of the system, but I have a referral, and the regular GP was very pleasant.)
(I have also just been reading the amazing Ivan Coyote's book about gender identity, which David brought me back from the writer's fest. More on them later. But they make me realise, again, again, how vastly lucky I am. I was talking about this with David last night -- he said that the bar shouldn't be so low as to count him and the rest of you as exceptional. But it is, and you are, and thank-you for being.
Close bracket.)

Two quick things: I think commenting should work whether or not people have accounts. If not let me know, and I'll try to change that in my settings.

And seahearth. I couldn't think of a name, so I opened a book of my stories at a random place, and it said "Ah, Rosa, I am so lucky, to be here in this house with all of you." And then I opened Tales of Moominvalley at a random place and read the story about the fillyjonk who is afraid of disasters living by the sea. And then with seahearth in mind I opened my laptop and its opening screen was a coast with red stones in neat rectangular brickish formations. And the picture is from Ponyo.

I hope this setup works for you. It's an experiment. If not, do tell me.

Comments

[leaflemming]

Ho! I think this is an excellent thing. This is a trial comment to make sure commenting works. It's telling me you've disable anonymous commenting, which I think is smart; I already have a dreamwidth ID so I'm using that, but it looks like there's a visitor comment option.

[leaflemming]

(For those who don't know, Leaflemming is my name across a fair lot of sites, and this is David).

just testing

[(Anonymous)]

I too think it's a good idea. & I'm just testing to see if I too can add a comment. [Anonymous Tony] Leaflemming - don't go near any cliffs in the autumn :-)

Re: just testing

[leaflemming]

LEAFlemming. I float easily upon the breeze. (Though the truth is more complex, and not even Jack, who invented the leaflemmings, may remember it now...)

[justy]

Hello! I too think the blog is a good idea. I'm posting this to see if it says who I am - I do have an account...

[justy]

And it does. Good.

[seahearth]

Good! This seems to work. I have reallowed anonymous comments after seeing leaflemming's comment, despite his advice -- can always ban them again if this becomes an issue.
(David's comment? Shall need to figure out how one uses usernames/names.)
(With Justy this will be simpler!)

[leaflemming]

I think the protocol is, call people by their username -- this is what Sherwood Smith does anyway, & she's who I learned Livejournal etiquette from, back before there was Dreamwidth.