What should a blog be about?

“Be as a page that aches for a word which speaks on a theme that is timeless …”

(words and music by Neil Diamond)

Shortly I believe my blog entries will begin to address the questions of the role that hope and optimism play regarding the meaning of life, as well as trying to get clear on exactly meaning is to be defined especially as to how it relates to goodness, truth, and beauty.

But it is hard to write about something so profound every day and I find myself often reflecting on conversations I’ve had during the day or family situations that have arisen. This of course raises the question of what is most important to write about and the lyrics from the song “Be”from the 1973 movie “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” seem apropo. I think we should write and talk and think about timeless themes. In fact this is a good definition of philosophical questions–they are timeless instead of timely questions.

And yet it is hard to always do this. Sometimes we just want to tell stories or jokes or engage in trivial conversation as a kind of relaxation from the “heaviness” of life. Yes there is an “unbearable lightness of being” as Kundera taught us; but there is also an “unbearable heaviness of being.” At such times trivial talk or writing or quiet may be a better response to life.