About Me

You can call me Willow, or Willow River if you want to be formal. While I was born and ostensibly grew up in the age of the internet where it was all about forums and people making their own websites, I had never frequented the areas of the internet that would inform me of such places and neither did anyone I knew share any such arcane knowledge with me.

I have since learned about the old internet, and now I'm filled with a nostalgia for a time when I was alive but a zeitgiest that I never experienced firsthand. Now, having just recently learned about its revival with the indie internet, I want to do my best to take part in it this time around. As such, I plan to share here some of my little creations and some of the things I've found in my day-to-day that might just spark a little joy in your life too.

As I sit here, grappling with coding the first pages of this little corner of the internet that I've claimed for my own, I know that times are rough for a lot of people. My country is so heavily influenced by the insanity that's happening just south of the border and it feels like we're constantly at risk of going up in flames as well. On top of that, I've been personally struggling to find work after my previous job had to shut down its local branch.

There are days where it feels like nothing we do is enough, will ever be enough.

But it's not healthy to wallow in that mindset. Just like it's not healthy to constantly force yourself to do more, to give more, to be more. Humans are not machines. We cannot, and should not, go on perpetually.

That's why I make this space. Because we need to take care of ourselves. Because we need to rest.

This will probably be the only place where I'll directly talk about politics.

In a capitalist system that demands that we constantly produce and perpetually make profit, rest is resistance. Being yourself is resistance. Believing that the world can be better is resistance.

I am here to resist. I am here to be myself, for myself.