The Side Bar Conversation

I realized recently that I have a lot of side bar conversations. When I read a piece of news or current event, I reach out to a friend and message them with my thoughts and feelings about stuff.

My friends are good to me. They know that I do most of my processing by either talking or writing about something that’s on my mind, and they graciously give me room to do so. But I do this so often lately, and friends aren’t always available when I have a thought, and sometimes they are available but they have their own shit to process, and their own discussions to carry out. And I have a lot of ideas, and a lot of capital O-Opinions. Possibly more than I can put on the handful of people I feel free to tap when I need to express myself. I also realized that often when I’m talking to the people I feel safest and most comfortable with, I’m often preaching to the choir. Which is great, but I’m feeling brave. I want to amplify my voice a bit, and talk to more than just my nearest and dearest.

So I’m taking my show on the road, or rather on to a blog. Hoping to be able to learn, engage, discuss, and find new people to side bar with. Probably going to be talking about being fat, and feminism and race relations, which aren’t totally comfortable topics for everyone, but pretty important to me. Might also be talking about cooking and fashion and music if that’s what I’m engaged with at the time. Might be talking about food and feminism, or race relations and fashion, because these are the kind of things that get all mixed up in my life. Here I go.