Hibernation

Friday, June 25, 2010

Lately I’ve felt compelled to indulge in some cyber hibernation. That is to say, I woke up in May to an intense feeling of internet over-exposure, like my life was no longer my own. In response I chose, rather subconsciously, to mostly refrain from twittering, blogging and Facebook updates…. and some days from my email inbox. We were gone almost all of May, and keeping up with the online world while touring can be an added dose of exhaustion in an already exhausting enterprise. David is not this way. He takes every chance he can get to be online, it’s restful to him.

It’s an interesting thing, these here internets. As an artist, a whole new world is opened up, an avenue for connecting with fans like never before. And I like the leveling of the playing field. After all, I’m just a girl like every girl. But sometimes there can be such a thing as too much access. After all, I’m just a girl, like every girl. The music industry is anti-hibernation. There is an underlying belief that if you take your name/face/music out of the game even for just a moment, that people will move on to the next shiny thing they see and forget about you. And I could center my whole life on that nonsense- defined by the approval of others. Or, I could step back when I feel compelled to in the interest of self-care, trusting that even if this fickle old world goes on without me, I will survive.

So I guess I’m writing today to once again say, “Hello.” And I’m sure we will return to our regularly scheduled programming shortly. But until then, I’ll see you when I poke my head out. Which might be sooner than you think.