Starting point

Everything has a starting point, I just wish I knew what mine was. 

I’m starting this blog, an admittedly trite and overdone endeavor, as a place to publish the running commentary and thoughts I have about life.  I’d like to think that what I have to say, or maybe even how I say it, are not nearly as trite, but rather that I can be articulate, witty and insightful at my best, and least clear, intelligible and accurate at my worst.  I guess that’s all I can hope for.

I think I want to be a writer, a businessman, a senator and president, eventually, but I figure that before I can stand up and defend the issues at stake, I ought to really work out my stand on a few of them.  Granted, I try to keep an open mind about things that easily get labelled “controversial,” holding dear the idea that discussions are better held with open minds and fluidity (at least before conclusions are made), but eventually if I’m to go into politics, and handle the economy, and be judged on value sets that are harsh, varied, wholesome, welcoming, and mutually exclusive all at the same time, I figure I should at least be well versed on what’s going on, instead of blindly addressing each topic head on, as they get hurled towards me.  And, as strong as my own ideas might be concerning those topics that seem to get people’s panties all in a bunch, only in combination with good experience can said ideas be best transformed into action (sorry, B-rock).

For a guy who’s trained in architecture (but educated in the world), it might seem like an ambitious goal, but lately, I’m just feeling more and more that I need an outlet to talk about what everybody in the news is bitching about, and how no matter how you slice them (like, let’s say the candidates for the presidential nominations), EVERYBODY seems to be wrong in one way or another.  What bothers me the most is the impression that not only are they wrong about certain things, but that they seem to think they are so impossibly right about everything.  They can’t phathom the notion that things could be different.

And I guess that’s how my insight and wit might refreshing.  I guess it has to do with the notion that nobody is right; or at least that everybody is partially wrong.  And yes, that includes me.  So, these ongoings should come with a warning, or, at least, you should take them with a grain of salt.  I know I do.

 And maybe that grain becomes my starting point.  We’ll see.  Stay tuned.