Articulating thoughts gives better rise to two opportunities:
1. to practice structuring one’s expression
2. to explore a thought
I find that although I may have an idea, putting it into a recognizable form before me lets me trace that idea so that I may better test its effectiveness. Having ideas is perhaps, the easy part. Weeding out good and bad ideas is a trick in itself.
This blog acts as a public record for me to explore ideas that I find interesting. It also serves as a virtual “landmark” so that others who find similar kinds of ideas may also gain access to me and I to them. Hopefully this venture is successful. So please, if you are interested in something I encourage a response.
In the future, if I find that I in fact do have something of value to share I hope to compose a book, or another kind of record. This blog then is also a way of testing the water, so to speak, to see if I do in fact have something of value to share with others. Hopefully this is a beneficial exercise.
A brief perusal of this blog’s contents should reveal the topic of interest for me. I am the type of person who needs things to make sense. I don’t necessarily long for order but I do long for the big picture to be intact, so that I can better map and navigate my own position. Since life doesn’t easily or often afford a place for all of us to have that ability, my main concern is regarding meaning. How does meaning become produced? How do we deal with meaning or the lack of it? Yet, simultaneously, meaning ‘in-itself’ is meaningless. Meaning is a way of navigating living, so the real basic concern is on life. How do we live? How should we live (as a people)? Secondary concerns are the language arts, art in general and the aesthetics of the 4th kind of Heideggerian Being — the Ought. This touches on morality, values and ethics. Everything in between, of any of these topics, or surrounding ‘ontology’ are also concerns of mine.
I hope that you all enjoy this as much as I do.
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