Introduction - Or- Why am I doing this?

I have often been told that my manner of speaking is very "prosaic", and that I should write. I have been told this by people long in my life, as well as by those who have known me all of ten minutes in the movie ticket line. Further, my archetypal analysis which pegs me as a Teacher/Traveler also says that writing should be a key feature to my general health and well being. OK then. Significant lifelong input says I should write. All right...but write what?

Though an avid consumer of fiction, I can't really envision myself producing it. Poetry is all good but not really filling. Kind of like the appetizer course for my writing appetite. In Twitter I found an incredible, continuous stream of information and contact with the world. It is also a very useful exercise in succinct expression of thoughts and information. But again, I often feel like I want and need to say more. It occurred to me that I am also an avid consumer of blogs. And here I may have found a good match for the directive/desire to write, and a medium which suits my style and tendencies in length. So blog it shall be.

One of the major features of my personality is that I am interested in "everything", or nearly so (no matter how hard I try I just cannot muster any enthusiasm for golf). Another feature is that I am amply endowed with opinions on nearly all of the nearly everything that interests me. I thought a blog would be a good forum to blather out those opinions, and so I shall.

Undoubtedly a large portion of the content of this blog will be political in nature. Over the past few years, I have found myself more and more engaged in following politics. I have also frequently found myself more and more outraged by the developments I see in that sphere. Especially here in the US. Very recently, I find myself overwhelmed with a need to take a more active roll. Some of that is contribution$, some is participation in petition and letter campaigns. I imagine that some of it will be protests. And I have no doubt some of it will be whatever contribution I can make through this blog.

There is however, so much more in the world to write about. An anthropologist by nature and training, historian also, and general cultural omnivore; I find myself frequently spending a good deal of head time on things I see around me every day. This seems like a nice place to put those ruminations. Some are quite serious, but some will also (I hope) be funny. I hope all will be interesting and informative...to someone besides myself. Grin.

Whatever the case, please consume and enjoy, or not, as you please.