welcome to the anywhere blog.
You've found the blog section of my website. Pat yourself on the back. Since I'm not an experienced blogger, maybe the title "journal" or "diary" would be more apt. "Blog" has a better ring to it though. This section could be sparse for awhile, but I hope to work it into a respectable collection of writings with time. New entries will be added as I write (and am able to publish) them.
I guess I've always enjoyed writing, because I've always enjoyed talking, or at-least I did when I was little. Now in my adult years I mostly find writing to be the 'pleasure' to talking's 'business'. I talk at work, talk at home, talk on the phone and in the car and on the toilet and i'll probably keep on talking in the coffin or the urn or the burning viking ship after I'm dead. Talk talk talk is all we do now, all day long everyone is talking to everyone else, and that's the expectation. I believe we as a society have forgotten how to shut up.
Those who know me might say I don't talk much most days, but to me a little goes a long way - a mile too far even. Because talking is required, and to abstain at any point is to reject civilized living in favor of becoming a freakish monster. We are stripped of our natural freedom when speech becomes mandatory, and our words are cheapened. Sentiments are polluted and communication makes way for droll exercises in halfhearted babbling. It becomes difficult to discern the false from the genuine when "hey, how are ya?" goes from a real question to a glib greeting. These are the pitfalls of speaking. Writing is different.
The amazing thing about writing is the entirely voluntary basis on which we do it. Reading shares this benefit - tired of an annoying author? Close the book! You can afford to be as stingy or generous as you please with the written word too, in a way you simply can't when speaking. What's more, writing has the ability to extend our lifespans. Not in a mystical 'fountain of youth' sense, but in a very real, conceptual one.
When I write, I am recording a snapshot of my thoughts that stands to last as long as the method of recording. Each time someone reads it, my expression springs to life, and me along with it. If the camera can make our good looks (or lack thereof) last forever, the pen and paper can do the same for our ideas. For a long, long time, anything deemed valuable enough to last has been written down. We continue that tradition to this day, even with things barely so valuable as to be worth the time spent writing it. All this to say: among this category of writings, this blog firmly sits.