“I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.”
― Flannery O’Connor
This is the first entry to my “blog”. I hear about people writing blogs and wonder why. How do they find the time to do this? Why do they think anybody cares? And yet I feel compelled to write. Why????????? It is amazing how over life’s span you learn some things about yourself. Maybe those are the most important things we ever learn. One of the things that I have learned about myself is contained in the quote from the novelist Flannery O’Connor. I love her quotations. This one hits me dead-on. “I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.” Or as I rephrase it for my own use: “I don’t know what I think until I read what I wrote.” Of course, that is paradoxical and leaves people sometimes shaking their heads. That has happened to me a lot in life – people shaking their heads at me. Writing forces me to sort out my thoughts. It tests me. And to be honest it often times indicts me, because I don’t live up to my own ideals and some of my thoughts are not valid. So, I am going to write – from time to time – when I think there is something to be said and can’t figure out what it is that needs to be said. And this might be the weirdest blog that there ever has been. I am not seeking any sponsors. I am not necessarily worried if anyone in the world reads it. I am writing for me. I need to do it – for me.