The Hermit Blogger Question: June 2026

Greetings, kind and patient readers. Since 2005, I've wrestled with signs of an eremitic Christian vegan blogging vocation, on one hand, and symptoms of bipolar schizoaffective disorder, on the other. After much trial and error across multiple blogs, including a massive burst of AI-assisted writing between February and May of 2026, I have decided to put my blogging on pause, simplify my Blogger footprint, and shift to an extended period of private discernment. 

This circumspection is in keeping with a monastic commitment to silence. It also seems consistent with further improvements in my psychiatric recovery. 

Given past patterns, it would be unwise for me to say that I won't start blogging again eventually. But if my current mindset does prove enduring, I am now essentially done with the blogging phase of my thus far psychiatrically disorganized career. 

Although it is perhaps just another wave of grandiosity, I am aiming to launch my first series of YouTube lectures sometime in 2030. I believe the YouTube lecture format will challenge me to achieve a higher level of psycho-spiritual integration and deliver a better service to the community than my blogging has thus far produced.

Thank you so much for your patient readership and helpful feedback at various points along my blogging journey from 2005 to 2026.