Before I began this blog I decided (and subsequently promised myself) that I would use the first entries to practice, to think about what I could and couldn't write, and just plain get reacquainted with "journaling" again. I used to write in a journal on a regular basis for a long time. As a younger man I poured out my thoughts, ideas, plans, and fantasies -- in an attempt to put them in order, to rein them in, to focus them. My nature is to follow the "on-again" "off-again" approach to just about everything I do, so here I am 40 years later --getting back to writing stuff down.
All facetiousness aside -- blogging might be a way for me to regain my desire to communicate to the "many'' (as opposed to the few or none). I am not sure yet if I will relax enough with this format to just let go --without "worry" getting between me and the medium (and the extent of the potential audience). I know some things for sure: I do not want to hurt anyone with this medium, I do want to stay with the truth as closely as humanly possible, and finally -- where there is conflict between those two principles, I will side with "truth."
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