A beginning of the Musings

My first blog post and hopefully not my last. It has been quite some time since I have written something for a purpose beyond the strictly utilitarian. I used to write poetry, keep a journal, and even took a stab at writing fiction. I have always had the writing bug but lately a career dealing with numbers all day long has stifled that little critter and I find myself years removed from it. Lately however I have been feeling the desire creep up inside again. The bug lives!



While blogging seems to fulfill many purposes for many people, I think I want my blog to be a way to express my thoughtful side as opposed to demonstrating my proficiency with the mathematical. Math is neat, exact, precise but I am afraid the world we live in does not neatly fall within such parameters. I feel the times call for us all to share our thinking with one another to try and make the world at first more bearable and then perhaps a better place. Collective efforts to deal with the "down and dirty" aspects of our world while aspiring to move to a better place even if it is just within our hearts and heads. I cannot say I will always be optimistic or upbeat but I will vow to never be insufferably negative or utterly devoid of faith in mankind.


I want to challenge myself, my friends, family and even interested strangers to share thoughts, ideas and feelings on things of tremendous import but also on things of a much meaker reality as well. I think the blog will take shape as time goes on, changing, growing. My purpose is to make it a dynamic organism developing every moment into something new while always influenced and firmly based upon that which has come before it. Sort of like us.



Musings from the Ether. I thought it was appropriate. Musings being thoughts or meditations but also conjuring up those mythological Muses that inspired the creation of art and literature. The ether to me being both quintessence or the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water that was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies (from http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=ether) but also on a less profound level merely the air all around us. Musings from the Ether, magical or base, complex or simplistic, vast or singular.



Before I end my first posting I want to thank a few appropriate Muses from my life to both share with my readers and give them their due. I would not be who I am without them.



My mother. Always looking down on me from above. Her influence on every single event of my life and upon every little aspect of my humanity has made me who I am.



My favorite author as a child, Edgar Allan Poe. A little awkward boy with a definite dark side and a desire to write found exactly what he was looking for in this brilliant, tormented, macabre man.



Anthony. The person who has taught me more than anyone that it is okay to be happy in life. Appropriately, my first post is on his birthday and I am thrilled! Thanks for encouraging me! Il mio amore!

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