Welcome

This post is the opening volley of a new blogging journey for me. That is not to say I have never blogged. Just the opposite. I have had numerous blogs. In fact, some of my old blogs can still be found on this WordPress site.

I have had a Xanga site… remember those things of a long time ago. For all I know, Xanga still exists. (For those who were not around at the time, it was the “Myspace” after Myspace. It actually predated Facebook by about a year or two, if I am remembering correctly.

And of course, Facebook! Ah, Facebook.

And Twitter… and whatever is coming after those two things have run their course.

So here we are. Some of you are where you always expected to be by now. Your plans and direction in life have never been in doubt and you have never wavered from the direction you set out upon, five, ten, fifteen, twenty years ago.

Some of us could learn from you.

Because some of us have found ourselves a long way away from where we expected to be by now. And some things about how we got “here” are clear. Some aren’t.

If I had a face and voice for video, I might share my thoughts, such as they are, from time to time, through that medium.

If I had a “radio voice”, I might do a podcast. For all I know, the day may come that I am comfortable enough to pursue that venue. I do have a “radio face”, just not quite what I envision a “radio voice” to sound like.

So I am going to come at you with words on a screen.

This blog is not necessarily a rough draft for a book, or anything. (I am not saying it will not evolve into one.) This is simply going to be where I can be “me” and pound out my candid thoughts as they come. I will probably argue with myself and most likely there will be some posts that are not exactly coherent.

The definition of “essay” is, as I understand it, “to try”. Essays do not necessarily make sense at the beginning, middle or end. They do not make any claims to answer all the questions, or even ask all the questions on a given subject. Sometimes they “just” clear the air. Sometimes an “essay” is profound in its depth. Other times an essay is ridiculous in its shallowness its only purpose was to make you laugh. Or cry. Or Just make you scratch your head and say. “Huh?”

So I expect to post some serious posts. There will also be lightweight posts about nothing at all. Politics will probably come up, as well as social and cultural commentary.

Starting with the next post, according to my plans, I will begin to take a look at some aspects of my spiritual journey and some of the things that have brought me “here”. My life began in foster care and I was adopted at age ten. I was raised by conservative Mennonites. I presently attend a charismatic church.

What happened between those two sentences? As respectfully as possible, I an going to do a “look back” and take stock.

Getting a clear picture of where we have been, receiving a revelation of who we are now and who we are becoming, and getting a glimpse of where we are going is a process…

It might be a wild ride, but it will be worth it…

JPB