Entering the Blogosphere

I have been meaning to start a blog for quite some time, but was stopped by the haunting fear that it would lack unity. What should I write about, I asked myself. Books? Cooking? The current economic crisis which has slapped my college-educated dreams right in their smug faces? In the end, I couldn't settle on one thing, another thing, or a third thing: instead, I have settled on writing about all of the above and more.

It is difficult to find legitimacy in a practice which has become such an outlet for so many different kinds of people. However, it seems that any reading-obsessed aspiring writer should have a place which publishes their work without an editor or agent.

I tend to be apologetic and people-pleasing in my real life: my blog will not be so. If the First Amendment must be upheld, even in the face of ignorance and blind assertions, I think my unedited thoughts deserve to be heard as well. A reader or two will hate me sometimes, or maybe it will be more, but I think that's okay. Any writing which illicits a response, even if it's a huffy dismissal of my entire belief system, fulfills its purpose.

I don't pretend to be well-researched, although I am well-read. I have a difficult time participating too much in politics because of my lack of information, but I also believe that anything that is heard or read second-hand must be taken with a grain of salt (and these days, maybe a little bit more). However, I don't claim to be a professional journalist, and my facts might not always be entirely straight. That's not an apology, merely a warning.

I have recently realized that today is the best teacher of lessons that anyone can have. While Biblical parables and stories of days gone are important to our understanding of the world, nothing is more important than the understandings we can glean from the life we live daily. I hope that this blog can serve as a sort of record of my understanding that I receive from life on a daily basis. That being said, any consistency of belief or assertion is rare in my life, so I can't promise that, either.

Let the games begin.