why blog?

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
~E.L. Doctorow

q » there are so many great blogs on this tapestry of life called the Internet. why add one more?

a » ever since i could write, i’ve wanted to write. so i did. i wrote stories, poems, scripts, songs, essays, thoughts, observations … whatever flitted through my brain on any given day. i can’t not write. it’s my sixth sense. no, it’s more than that » it’s all my senses rolled into one. it’s an expression of how i see and hear and smell and taste and feel my way through life. it’s part of how i understand myself and the world i live in. in the following quote, i’m the first guy:

“A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”
~Charles Peguy

it doesn’t matter if my words don’t move you (though i celebrate when they do). i will still write. it is at once my passion and my compulsion. ink flows through my veins and keeps my beating heart alive.

as for the blog, well … my wife says the notebooks are piling up too high.
(all about compromise)