Straight Edge Life

This is the first thing I’ve written in a while. For any purpose. Soon I will be taking this site offline. Well, I’ll probably leave the site up but I will stop updating it, and when the domain expires it will go offline.

I’m done. Too many words and too few photos these last few years. Too much time behind a computer and to little time out in the world. Life, it seems, is passing me by and this site feels like it’s part of the problem. It’s an entity of it’s own, something that has a life and grows on it’s own, separate from me. And that’s not what I want.

I may start a new site somewhere that will, hopefully, feel a bit more connected to who I am. You see, I started straight edge life in the middle of my divorce. The identity of Straight Edge helped me find enormous strength when I had very little of my own. It helped me sort out my priorities and to find the resolve to take care of them properly. Unfortunately for this site those priorities do not include maintaining a large site or gluing myself to a label.

Straight Edge is part of who I am, it will always be, I’m not about to start drinking, have no fear. I’m as dedicated now to living totally substance free as I ever was, if not more so. But the label of it has put distance between me and a few people who I deeply care about. It’s just time for me to move on. You know, there’s a point where you spend so much time talking about life that you forget to actually live it. So… goodnight my friends. I’ll let you all know when I’ve got something worth reading or looking at, I promise.