Flotsam And Jetsam

It's been a long time since I wrote for my blog. This past year, of course, has been a busy one. I embarked last year on a new adventure, a new profession, and it has treated me well. For the first time in my working life, I have financial security, and despite the hours, I genuinely enjoy driving. I see much of the country, and it gets a little smaller every day. I imagine in 20 years, it will be like the back of my hand.

 One of the benefits of driving, naturally, is that I spend a lot of time studying. I listen to audiobooks en route, and I spend my days with the greatest minds of all time. This immersion has given me a fresh perspective on how to approach my intellectual journey.

Meanwhile, I've continued to write, pen and paper filling my quiet moments. I've never been adept at editing, preferring a free flow of thought. In this regard, the blog has always worked well. Perhaps, one day, I will publish; for now, this serves as a daily exercise. My new plan, at least, is to write a little every day. I have a new computer and Microsoft Word, and that's where I'll start.

I don't know if anyone will ever read my blog. I've never been good at social networking. I don't care to advertise, and I don't really need to. I'm not doing this for a living. I write to focus my thoughts, to know what I believe, what I actually stand for.

This is a quality so often lost in popular society. We float around in the flotsam of daily headlines, and we never truly know ourselves. That self-knowledge is just a whisper in the darkness, always present, yet somehow lost in the shuffle.

So with this in mind, I have returned to my blog, in the hope that, perhaps, I might find myself. And maybe in the course of my journey, others will join me, and take comfort that there is another, out there, wandering, too, for the smallest glimpse of truth.