14. 14th January 2025. A note from the past.
And sometimes social media can be brilliant.
As much as I've abandoned Twitter, am considering bailing on Facebook, can't see the point of Instagram and Threads is just... weird. (My 'For You' feed just seems to be full of people announcing the deaths of loved ones, which is awful and moving and infinitely sad but I have no idea why it's being pushed toward me. I empathise massively but it's not my sadness and I'm not sure that it wants to sit with me. Maybe it's a lesson in something? I don't know.)
But Bluesky. I received a reply to a post on Bluesky, from a lad asking if he could have my email. That he had something to send me that was Blue Nile related.
I followed him, messaged my email to him and received an email telling me what my 'Get Into This' piece on The Blue Nile meant to him, where he is in his life that it spoke to him.
You don't need the details. They're his details. But it's one of the most beautiful, moving emails I've ever received. It's the joy of the internet (I said this to him in my reply); things sit there, waiting to be found. You think a piece has had its life but then it rises up, shows itself to someone by accident. And means something.
As a writer, can you possibly ask for more than that?
A perfect moment.
Here's Isaac Hayes doing Let's Go Out Tonight:
And here's the original piece we're talking about. I love this:
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