new look, same blog, interesting journey

i’ve been thinking about it for awhile, and decided to tuck my blog into my own website, so that everything is in one place (more or less).  i’m happy for the switch, and the new, simplistic design.

life’s interesting.  an a priori understatement, to be sure.  i say so, because it was not even 3 years ago when i was nudged to blog during a time of worship.  i didn’t really even know what a blog was.  but i started one then (way back when, on livejournal).  the entries were heroic undertakings, a great swipe or claw at meaning; existential.

then i went to africa to produce a film.  unexpectedly i was thrust into consistent blog and internet-related activity.  and i enjoyed it.  i so little knew what i was doing.  and yet, because i had a bit of familiarity with HTML coding (i could create a hyperlink and stylize text – we’re talking pre-basics) people asked me to help them out on their websites.  i had the fortune of helping a kenyan friend put together a blog.  and when i returned home, realized i needed to learn how to create websites.

fastforward, and i’m a few blog/names later.  but scribing has stuck.  and its meaning for me runs deep. at first it was an excercise to create a cirriculum of sorts; a way to force myself upward…to not get stuck, but to learn, to grow. and i have.  and if i slow down the frantic pace of my mental trailing, enough to look over my shoulder down the path in order to consider how i ended up here, at this moment, making black marks on this strange canvas, i see too that i can, must, will move onward.  meaning ever near, looming dangerously as any thunder cloud that mushrooms across the sky.

i want to say thanks to those of you who occasionally stop by.  for your footfall upon the trail.  i’m glad you’re out there, walking.  onward.

it was necessary for me to take a few moments to reflect.  the thread, the golden thread (as dickens would say) is traced so intricately through life.  i trace it back.  i refresh myself in the how, the why.