Getting started, finally

For some time now I've been 'thinking' about blogging, instead of writing random thoughts to share by direct email.

But like any new venture, the idea has to percolate for a while -- izzit worth it? do I really have anything to say? etc, and then finally I realize that I'm thinking things which I ultimately share radomly in those emails anyway, so why not just blog them instead.

When I was younger i.e. less older chronologically than I am now, so I felt I could be somewhat cavalier about 'getting older' (anyone remember those days?) I decided that one of my goals as I got older was to get wiser. And then I devised a sort of 'wisdom' scale analogy that I would like to be at least (my age) + 5 pts on a wisdom scale at any given time. Then I figured someone must have dropped something into my ginger tea, and dropped that idea completely. Too metric and too 'achievement' oriented.

Wisdom should come. But there must be things that one can do to make oneself easier for 'wisdom' to find, right?

Then I had it: notice things that strike me as 'interesting' or 'remarkable' and think a bit about them. What was interesting about that, or what made that instance remarkable? Often I found that the most interesting and remarkable experiences I felt I had were those where I experienced something entirely new for the first time and/or things that broadened and or challenged my normal thinking about things.

So, in no particular order, and on no particular schedule, I plan to write my way through some of those experiences in a shared environment.

Stay tuned and please comment !