Getting ready to unplug from social media...

 I have made a dramatic decision in my life recently.   I have decided to unplug, delete, withdrawal from all of my social media accounts, with the end date of November 25, 2019.    This decision came to me over about a year in time of thinking, doing research and personal reflection.  This is a big experiment in my life, one that I intend to keep for at least two years.  After two years of absence, I may re-evaluate.  I am keeping a relationship with you tube, but in that relationship I will vow not to look at the comments of any of the videos that I watch and I will monitor how I access videos on youTube.  It is a process.  

Right now, I am reaching out on facebook, snapchat and instagram, giving people a "heads up" of my departure.  I am also deliberately keeping an old fashioned address book,  methodically writing down the physical addresses, emails, phone numbers and sometimes birthdays of those that I want to keep in touch with, or those who want to keep in touch with me.  One idea I have around keeping physical addresses is picking a few people from the book and sending them a postcard from one of my travels.  Another is to craft an end-of-the-year letter, or perhaps a beginning-of-the-year letter to all the folks in my address book.  Also, when I have my next show opening or performance, one idea is to send notice through snail mail and perhaps email, depending on the individuals in my network.

I am also committed to post more here, on my blog, where you are reading right now.  I feel that on my blog, I can give more context to my thoughts, ideas, movements, reflections.  It will be my own way of keeping people who are interested in what I am doing "in the loop" of my personal and artistic journeys.  A one-stop place for audio, video, photos and writing.  

My biggest internal resistance so far is letting go of twitter.  I have built a strong relationship to the medium, having developed a way of communicating there that is unique and authentic to me and my voice, by creating twitter poems.   Because of my biggest relationship to twitter and my reluctance to leave, I will give myself until December 24th, 2019 to extract myself from that social medium.   I need to slowly extract all of my poems, document them and find ways to point my followers to this blog medium.

I am so excited about this transition.  I am looking forward to keeping a more regular blog, as a way to share who I am and who I am becoming.  Thank you for coming along with me for this journey.