{"id":10304,"date":"2020-02-16T12:20:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T17:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/?p=10304"},"modified":"2026-02-24T14:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T19:43:13","slug":"keepsakes-and-reddit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/keepsakes-and-reddit\/","title":{"rendered":"Keepsakes and Reddit"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16395\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16395\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-16395\" src=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/20190304_pen.jpg\" alt=\"An image of a Pilot Precise V7 rollerball pen with blue ink.\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16395\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The perfect pen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I haven\u2019t written much. I don\u2019t know what I can say that I haven\u2019t said before ad nauseam, and yet, I always forget I said it and continue to say it\u2014at least, elsewhere. In my journals (dating back 21 years), in my doodles (dating back 30), in the two internet communities I participate in now.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>My family is preparing to move house and I\u2019m going through stuff. I\u2019m going through my mementos and keepsakes and wondering, \u201cWhy am I keeping this?\u201d I won\u2019t Konmari my house, but I will Konmari my keepsakes. \u201cWhat brings me joy?\u201d Most of it I can\u2019t even remember or remember why I have it. A few pieces are from people from whom I have parted bitterly.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s on paper that I have not already digitized, I\u2019m scanning and then I\u2019ll shred. I\u2019ve been reading some of it. I really don\u2019t need all that negativity in my life right now, but it\u2019s important to keep it because it reminded me that I am still the same person, dealing with the same issues, doing the same things I\u2019ve always done using the same coping mechanisms I\u2019ve always used. I went to see a therapist yesterday. He gave me a new tool.<\/p>\n<p>But sometimes&#160;\u2026 just <em>sometimes<\/em>&#160;\u2026 I say stuff on Reddit. Reddit asks interesting questions that make me want to say things I haven\u2019t said before. I don\u2019t really care to have my comments either downvoted or buried in a very long and popular thread to which I am late, so I\u2019ll put them here and say something new for once.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I\u2019ll even post some things I\u2019ve written in the last 20 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven\u2019t written much. I don\u2019t know what I can say that I haven\u2019t said before ad nauseam, and yet, I always forget I said it and continue to say it\u2014at least, elsewhere. In my journals (dating back 21 years), in my doodles (dating back 30), in the two internet communities I participate in now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[578,476],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovely-things","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10304"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23944,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10304\/revisions\/23944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}