Finally

This site, intended as a platform for my thoughts and ramblings on topics that interest me, was launched in 2016. It sat unused for four years as I busied myself with other things – work, bicycling, gardening, caring for my mother, and composing sound art. I never was able to marshal my blogging skills, rudimentary as they were, into any cohesive (or even incoherent) posts during that period.

Now, in the shadow of a pandemic, a contentious election and the possibility of an American societal dystopia, I am reluctantly forcing myself to add to the myriad of online musings and contribute yet another voice to that monumental unfiltered cacophony, which at times reminds me of some of my more frenetic pieces.

Living a relatively cloistered existence in New York’s Mid Hudson Valley, I am not directly affected by much of today’s turmoil, that is until I make the mistake of experiencing news broadcasts, or wandering haphazardly into the social media morass. It is, at times disheartening, if not downright terrifying. However, I always try to comfort myself with the meditation that we human beings can be either negative, positive or neutral as to our emotional attachment to the world we live in. Sometimes that works. Sometimes not.

So, the die has been cast. I have crossed the Rubicon, or at least dipped my toe in it. We’ll see what happens.