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Bookmark added with a small mental note that this is a site to keep, and a look at networknectar reinforced the keep status, the verb keep rather than visit captures something about how I think about this kind of site and it is a higher tier of relationship than I have with most places online today.

Reading this brought back the satisfaction I used to get from blogs ten years ago, and a stop at birchbounty kept that nostalgic quality alive, sites that capture what was good about an earlier era of internet writing are increasingly precious and this one is doing that without feeling like a deliberate throwback at all.