Welcome

To start, I thought it might be helpful to give the reader some insight into my motivation for starting a blog with a name and description that reeks of abstraction, or for even blogging at all for that matter.  It doesn’t take anyone long after meeting me to discover that I’m a verbal processor. This means that I say a lot of jumbled garbage before I finally spit out what I’m trying to say, and half the time I never even get around to saying what I had intended to. As I was considering this, I realized that if I write, I can easily delete the garbage and perhaps be left with some reasonably valuable content. I also thought that if I write like this for a certain length of time it may ultimately have a positive effect on the way I shape my verbal speech .

As for the name, I can’t seem to help the fact that my mind is always defying gravity and wandering to the furthest reaches of the cosmos. One might well assume that my head is just another planet, constantly spinning and circling the sun. As would be imagined, this is quite a challenging disability when it comes to managing a practical existence, but from what I’m told, there are others who think like this, and some of them have even found ways to positively impact the world through their disability. Now, whether or not these thinkers care to pay their mortgage, or to sit down to eat, or to visit their grandmother, I have no way of knowing. 

It’s important for the reader to understand that I approach this writing on the premises of certain ideological assumptions about the world and human existence for which I have no scientific proof. That being said, I am, at least at the present, convinced that my assumptions are good ones. (aren‘t we all). The only proof that I’m able to provide is that of a life sold out to my assumptions. My hope is that through these memoirs the reader might be confronted, not only with thoughts and ideas conceived through the intellect, but also by the out-workings of those thoughts through my own life journey. It’s also important that the reader is aware that I don’t really know anything when it comes to “known” knowledge concerning the things that I hope to address and express here. Anyone who knows something about anything will undoubtedly have no trouble taking a red pen to much of what I might assume or “theorize”. I’m sure that most of what I present as my own earth-shattering revelations will be found out to be ancient knowledge first discovered by the Milesian philosophers or some other early source. My aim is not so much to be correct in what I write, as it is to manage my thoughts in a manner that makes it possible for them to positively effect the way I live. My postings will probably raise far more questions than they will provide answers, they will most likely have more to say about what I doubt than what I believe, and if this blog is to enrich anyone’s life I can nearly guarantee that it won’t be through their gaining some new knowledge in a given area, but through the liberation that comes by admitting that life is too ambiguous to claim to know much of anything about it. At that you’re probably saying, “Enough already!”, and I promise not to waste your time with disclaimers in the future. Feel free to view this post simply as a sort of terms and conditions. (which I’m aware nobody actually reads).

Thanks for sticking with me, and I look forward to what’s to come!