Lego

There really is no point in tearing something down if you are not going to build something up in it's place. To be entirely deconstructional is a temptation for the PoMo generations. Any fool can pull lego blocs apart. Putting them together calls for optomism; you have to be constructive. Yet there is no enlightenment in building without any understanding of potential follies. We see this in the over-optomist. Aristotle would point out that there is a balance, or "Golden Mean" between the extreems of pessimist and over-optomist. Randy has the best idea for this.
Randy Webb referencing Chestertons says "We must dislike things enough to change them, and love them enough to make them worth changing." This is what I want people to think about me. I do not want to be part of society's problem, I want to be part of the solutions.

Courage

Our deepest fear in not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us.
We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?"
Actually, who are we not to be?
You are a child of God.
You playing small doesn't serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconscioulsy give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fears, our presence outomatically liberates others.
-Marianne Williamson (as quoted by Nelson Mandela in his inaugural speech, 1994)

16 inches

OUr rhetoric shapes our assumption that thoughts are coming either from head or heart. But the human heart is only a muscle and not the true seat of emotions. Emotions, ideas, perceptions, deductions and conclusions all happen in the same grey organ.
So we make the mistake of assuming that a "truth" has to move from our head to our heart. What we really mean is that we want this idea to take hold in more than just one region of the brain. We want to get emotional about something that is presently only rational. I am much more encouraged to personal change when realizing that it doesn't have to move the 16 inches from head to heart. It doesn't have to go anywhere. I only need to think on it and get excited about it.

First time for everything

This is the first time that I have ever blogged my own blog.

New technology changes the indiviual who uses it, so this will change me. The new technology has changed our perceptions of eachother. Now we have two windows into the soul, the eye, and the blog.
The most alarming notion to others is a public diary. But honestly it is not that. The blog is not who we are, but what we want others to see us as. We are revealing ourselves, or expressing ourselves. And since self expression is the formula for self actuallization, the blog may soon become an essential therapy. Does it really matter if anybody else is reading it?