Why muse?

Now that I have created a pleasing (to me) design and confirmed that I understand all the workings of Blogger, let me set forth my goals for this blog.

My work life is full of exact statements of programming code designed to accomplish various work goals or terse documents that fully describe the end result of those exact statements. While the work does fulfill me and keeps me sharp, it leaves me filling empty at times - no one can appreciate the beauty of my work, the completeness of my solution, the wizardry contained therein.

My home life is full of wife, mother-in-law, children and grandchildren, clamoring for my attention. Children who should have been out of the house years ago steal attention from those who deserve and require my attention now. Grandchildren whose rearing should be attended to by their parents instead come to their grandparents. Conflicts between spouses that should be handled in the privacy of their own homes are screamed out loud for all to hear. A wife who should have, and deserves, my complete attention suffers from inattention as I seek to escape the pandemonium.

My escape has involved acquiring new toys, my Kindle and iPhone, or playing with new technology such as the virtual world of Second Life (SL). During my escapes, when I read something like The Gathering by Anne Enright, wander through my old favorite The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, listen to The Body Is A Stairway Of Skin by Over the Rhine or create a new landscape in SL and view it at sunset, I begin yearning to more completely express what I think; expression void of terse statements, expression that is not guarded, expression that exposes the beauty, mundane and horror around me.

This blog will be my attempt at expressing what I think and feel. As much as possible it will be edited only to bring out the beauty of language. It may offend. It may inspire. It will expose my mind and heart to you.