The recent news, in typical fashion, has been focusing on the negative: roadside bombs, banks in trouble, mortages in foreclosure, people losing their jobs. Yes, it has been devastating for many. I know what's it's like having financial pressures since I didn't have a job for over a year and then was severely underemployed (that means making very little) for even longer.
Yet I believe there are many things in life that go unmentioned or not often recalled. I would like to mention those moments, those people, those landscapes. There is something to this living. As Robert Pirsig writes at the end of his book, Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintanence:
Trials never end, of course. Unhappiness and misfortune are bound to occur as long as people live, but there is a feeling now, that was not here before, and is not just on the surface of things, but penetrates all the way through: We've won it. It's going to be better now. You can sort of tell these things.
I've started this blog because of that feeling. It's a wacky, wonderful world, not necessarily fair or pain-free, but it's still a wide space to explore. I'd like to explore.
I hope you enjoy the visit to this blog.
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