I have in recent months been experimenting with ways to satisfy my desire for expressing myself, both in terms of my creative passions, but also in terms of my desire to actually connect with others. In some sense, my desire for connection is intellectual, but it is also social. It has proven to be, for me, a challenging problem, not so much for lack of things to say, nor actual forums on which I can express myself, but whether there is the right audience, distance, and the right control that allows me to give enough of myself, while not being overwhelmed by the potential attention and interactions that may fall out of "putting myself out there." For those who do not know me, and indeed, that is probably most of you, I style myself an independent thinker and writer and learner. In this sense, I am representing only myself, presenting things that are of interest to me, both in the sense of being original, or taken from the World around me as interesting to me, and worth comme...
Scribblings, thought and idea dumps from an independent thinker and writer.