Beginnings

I’ve never managed a blog before or even posted on one, but early this morning for some reason I felt a spontaneous inclination to start one… so I unexpectedly followed up on it without truly knowing why. It could be that today I’ll get on a plane and leave the beautiful Providence, Rhode Island to head for my hometown Nashville for a couple weeks. Then my world will take a drastic shift as I travel to Buenos Aires, Argentina for six months to study and explore various aspects of the culture there. It just seems like the right time to start a project like this. Having just turned 20, I’m overcome with a desire to start expressing substantive elements of my existence and documenting thoughts and muses about my experience. Who am I? I’m just a college student inspired by music and other forms of art who is searching for what it truly means to be human in the world today. I love people and don’t understand them, or even myself. Confusion serves as my impetus for intellectual journeys and nights of self-reflection. Art, particularly music, steers me toward compassion and beauty, as well as the impulse to create.

Managing this blog will be a immense challenge, but it will surely keep my mind stimulated, and hopefully yours too. I’ll be posting music I find particularly moving or meaningful as well as poetry, photography, quotes, and videos that seem to express ideas that are original, creative, and thought provoking. Truly I hope to encourage further questioning of my mind and yours, as we are all imaginative individuals in an intricate and elaborate society.

Intellectuality is rooted not in formal education as much as it is informal expression.

Much peace be with our minds.