hello, again

it's been a very difficult year for me. last month, i finally managed to crawl out of a deep, depressive state; one worse than i had experienced in a long time. the "current state of the world" certainly made things a lot worse, but in general, a lot of things in my life were going very badly. but...! i am here, and i am alive. in the back of my mind, i had planned to return to blogging, but my…