The birth of a blog

As a group we are all pretty crunchy by mainstream standards, but otherwise, we haven't really got much in common. We were all brought together by being sidelined by our sometimes-unpopular views on the world, but this has also caused some friction between us. But friction can generate heat and in our case, a degree of warmth, that we haven't always found as readily in the real world. Online we can be our best selves, or our loudest selves, or our empathetic selves, but a part of ourselves we have few opportunities to show to the rest of the world.