I am writing letters.

So far this month I’ve written twelve. Some were to people I haven’t seen in years, to friends I grew up with in Ontario that now live all across North America. It was hard to compress months and months of updates into just a few sentences, but it felt good to start reconnecting after falling out of touch.

Some letters were to people I talk to everyday. Even though Andrew and I Skype every night, I wrote him anyway. There were no updates or bits of news to tell him so I just wrote to say hello, and I miss you, and I love you. It felt good to write it out on paper, and in ink.

Some letters, the hardest letters, were to people that I am still used to seeing every day. People who have only recently moved out of the “near” category and into the “far”. I want to say that writing these felt good too, but mostly they just made me frustrated and sad. Someday I hope to get better at having people move back and forth between “near” and “far”, but I am not there yet. I am pretty far away.

I am writing code.

I worked on my game engine project for hours this weekend. Look! I got basic shading to work:

So right now it’s less of “game engine” and more of a “3D cube and triangle renderer”, but I’m making progress. And it’s exciting!