The Hat-Box Journal: Finally Just About Finished Organizing The Free-Time, Online Writing

Introduction (and Thanks for Visiting, By the Way)

For the most part, I'm not the type who would keep a journal, or post regularly on a blog for that matter. (Write? Yes, and write "tons". Journal? No, that's something different.) Sometimes people change, though; and sometimes people have times when they're going through "A Thing" of one sort or another. Since I don't tend to be the kind of person who changes very dramatically, I suppose, maybe (no, know) that I'm going through a number of "Things". And if not "Things", then at least situations/dilemmas that seem to bring on the urge to write some types of things that I'd otherwise not particularly have the urge to write.

Thursday, September 10, 2015

Finally Just About Finished Organizing The Free-Time, Online Writing

Although, out of necessity and for reasons I won't go into here, this blog has quite a bit of stuff on it that I'll eventually move; I've set up this one blog as the one I'll use as my "only real one". It's not that I don't still have stuff (posts, pages, blogs, accounts, etc.) that doesn't need updating, polishing, transferring, or deleting. I do. It's just that I now have a better idea about what I need to do with any number of those things.

I haven't really written anything (or at least anything worth writing) online since, I think, last Winter. (The combination of that record-breaking Winter combined with the long-running upheaval with Internet "writing platforms" (like HubPages) and then combined with any number of factors in online/offline life meant I either didn't have the time or energy to do any writing AND THEN to decide whether, if at all, I'd post it online.

I actually did build up a little collection of new stuff in my computer. It's just been a matter of not being certain I wanted to post it in one place or another (and not having my own site or blog that I saw as "worth adding something good to".

As a result, blogs that I set up with the idea of eventually further developing them went neglected (which is different from "not-being-neglected-and-just-in-need-of-the-next-step-while-still-having-a-long-term-aim").

Then I had old stuff that that I moved from one place but never really decided to move it to another place. But, I had also stuff that I moved from one place and willy-nilly (well, sort of willy-nilly) posted in any number of places that looked in need of something new.

For the most part, once I decided to try to do something with the online mess that had "gone on" as a result of the number of years I've spent on the free-time stuff AND the general upheaval in the world of online writing; the only thing I felt like writing was (as this, right here is) yet more discussion about my own, individual, process of trying to sort out and organize any number of things. (Actually, I vowed to myself that I was not going to write any more stuff that was longer than, say, a paragraph, about the ongoing organizing/sorting project. Anyone who actually reads this will now see that I haven't quite managed to keep that particular vow.)

In any case, I've made some real progress with regard to de-emphasizing what needed to be de-emphasized. And, I've made some reasonable peace with not yet being able to transfer, delete and/or otherwise polish up a number of things that either fall under the category of "long-term aims" or else "not hurting anyone by not being deleted today".

The only real reason I'm writing this particular post is to have yet one more "explanation"/"organization" post in case a) I don't happen to do anything else on this blog for a few days, and b) (I'll be honest) to get rid of the most recent post that has a picture on it that I don't want to keep seeing every time I'm at this blog.

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"Causes-of-Sorts"

I have several "causes-of-sorts", and some are (in no particular order):

- that children are so often underestimated as separate little human beings

- that children are so often misunderstood

-that the court system is too often out-and-out abusive to children (and abusive, sometimes, over a period of years that may amount to most of, if not all of, a child's childhood; but that also can also have serious impact past the childhood or teen years and into adulthood)

- that the court system allows what it is called "legal abuse" of children and adults involved in any number of types of cases

- that elderly people are so often underestimated when they're so often perfectly capable (even more-capable-than-a-lot-of-younger-people) human beings

-that elderly people are so often misunderstood

-that women are so often underestimated, misunderstood, and/or generally not seen/treated as truly equal and capable adults

- that we seem to live in a "mental-health-crazy" society that places people from each of the above groups (and from some other groups as well) at risk of having their lives destroyed

Actually, I have quite a few other "causes-of-sorts" too (I'm not young, so I've picked up quite a few along the way), but what I've highlighted above should give any visitors a rough idea of the kinds of things I'll be posting on this site.)

Causes and concerns for others aside, I'll be adding some personal posts (which is why I've pointed out that thoughts here won't be making it into "The Book").

Sites Aiming to Address Those "Causes-of-Sorts"

These five sites are sites I've set up with the idea that I can eventually address the individual sets of issues adequately by combining material from some experts for whom I have high respect with my own posts/articles written either from research or extensive/long-term personal experience/exposure. The sites are quite new. I am, however, in the ongoing process of adding material; and I thought the less formal approach I'm using in this blog may help tie together all the subjects .

A Parent's Perspectives

Divorce Perspectives

Perspectives - Relationships

Perspectives - Social Issues

Perspectives - Women's Issues