When I joined LinkedIn, I uploaded a profile that is pretty non-linear. It’s probably has no more swerves than most people’s lives, but most folks include only what makes a coherent
story. I choose to put everything in there that matters to me.
As disparate as my profile appears on first glance, however,
there is one common thread that runs through nearly everything I do, and it has
to do with self expression—attending to my own, and helping others with theirs.
This is very closely related to truth-telling. I have
deluded myself for years thinking that I could see truth where others could
not, but now that I’ve reached a certain age, I'm not as sure. I do choose to believe, however, that some of
what I see might actually be useful to other people, and some of it might even
be true.
The best of the things I notice as I motor through my days
ends up in my original songs, but songwriting is a very exacting art when done
well, and there is much—MUCH—that does not make the cut. This blog is mostly
the overflow from that songwriting effort, hence the tag line “Stuff that
didn’t make it into a song.”
I should warn you that I double majored in Philosophy and
English, and then went on to get a PhD in literature. This is a long way of
saying that I think way too much, and if one of my songwriting coaches is to be
believed, often too deeply. As much as I think Plato is often full of shit, I
will side with Socrates, however, and agree that the unexamined life is not
worth living.
This is another way of saying that I pretty much lay it all
out when I bother to lay anything out at all. Which is another way of saying
that this blog may not be for the faint of heart, or at least I hope this is
true.
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