hi all,

I’ve been thinking for quite some time of beginning another blog.

I have an insatiable love of the written word.  So many of my most profound thoughts only come to be when I write.  The ideas seem to flow from my fingers in ways my mouth is never quite able.

I love ideas.  I love to think.  I also love to express my ideas in ways that get others to think about their most closely-held beliefs.

I’m an odd duck.  In a world of gods, the supernatural, and ‘oddities’, I marvel at the innane.  The most ‘natural’ aspects of life intrigue me.  I also believe that we as humans are at our height when we shed the desire for the ‘heavenly’ and embrace, with fresh eyes and open arms, the ‘earthly’.  The less we spend thinking about what comes down from heaven, the more we can stretch ourselves up and out.  We, as a race, have shortchanged OUR creative abilities for fear of failing.  We reach out to god/s to help us fix life, when the truth is this:  it’s never been broken.  Life is as it is.  To not see that is to risk taking it for granted: to see life as some sort of ‘dress rehearsal’ for another life.  WHAT A WASTE OF OUR LIVES!  but I digress…..

You’ll hear me speak of philosophers who have shaped my thinking.  These include Nietzsche, Marcus Aurelius, Buddha, etc.  Each, in his or her own way, has given me different sets of glasses with which to see the life around me.  I’ve learned to take what i like and jettison what I don’t.  The test of any real thinker is his or her ability to mold their own viewpoint so that it ‘makes sense’ to them.

I don’t write for you, so much as for my own sanity.  However, I hope you enjoy what you read.

best,

brett