diaries and musings (part 1)

to keep you informed

Dearest Reader,

What are you wearing, doing, thinking, feeling? Or watching, fucking, considering, eating? I wrote in the subheader ‘to keep you informed’ but what I really mean is to keep you engaged but what I really mean is to maintain, for now, a form of expression while I work away at larger projects that do exist on a ‘grand narrative scale’, in other words, I guess, things that take time.

It’s always been easier to write letters to others than a diary to myself. The diaries to myself end up being stories of nonfiction, sometimes fiction, or the intros to my interviews. It’s through letters to others that I can practice the obscure universal act of keeping a diary. Tech executives have deemed this journaling, a term I find preposterous and ugly. It’s keeping a diary, a note of one’s existence in a very private, personal, almost clandestine form. I normally like to do this for an audience of one, here and now shared for many.

Below are some recent letters that include the dates they were written and the person they were written to. If there were any responses, they are not included.

There’s a childish excitement, innocent glee, at the thought of being able to publish something new, especially after it’s been a while. It gets me off in all kinds of ways being able to share my life with you. Upon hitting send, I feel alive. That much is true.

Thanks for your witness,

-GG

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To Ella Yehros, a producer in Los Angeles

August 13th, 2024