Afterlife

Hi there. My name is James.

Awhile back I started this blog with my brother, Dave. When we started we had this whole plan where we would write about our adventures together. We used the first initial of our first names to identify ourselves. It seemed reasonable to us at the time. The reason for the blog was simple, in theory. We were both adopted into different families as infants due to extenuating circumstances. We reunited years later and discovered who we were and what being brothers meant when you didn’t grow up together. And we figured people could read about our activities and get some sense of what the journey meant to us.

Since we first met there have been numerous adventures, and we have written about a few of them. I think part of the reason we went on these trips was we both wanted to make up for the time we had lost. That first week together we crammed as many different things as humanly possible into our plans. We did every single one and by Friday were so tired we couldn’t look at another historical building without wanting to drift into the wonderful abyss that is sleep. That could be considered the “short version” of the story. But after the first couple of posts, and being busy in our own personal lives, we took longer between each blog update. I wish I could tell you there was a really amazing and satisfying reason for that but there really wasn’t.

I managed to get writers block and wondered if dramatic retellings of trips we went on were really the right way to go with the blog. After all, there are so many blogs on the internet and these sorts of tales are hardly unique, with the exception that they were specifically about my brother and I. But I wasn’t necessarily ready to talk about my personal life either. I was torn. Which way should we take it? What could I tell people that they’d actually want to hear? What could I write that people would even feel like reading?

Although I’m still not sure exactly what the nature of the blog should be, I did feel some measure of guilt over having not updated it in such a long period of time. It was never my, or my brothers, intent to abandon it. To let the cracks show as moss grows on the side. As we get older, maybe there are more things about ourselves that we will feel comfortable sharing. Maybe the blog doesn’t have to be about any one specific thing as long as Dave and I write the posts.

What I do know for certain – the blog is not dead. And I will certainly try to see that it is updated more often. I believe that my brother Dave wishes for this as well. So you’ll be hearing from us soon. And who knows? Maybe we’ll bring you a bit deeper into our respective worlds, and lives.

James