Everything I know ...

This blog: It got its start. It's new and shiny. The problem is, already I'm second-guessing what I should be writing instead of just slipping my brain into gear and letting it flow. The old stream of consciousness thing. Put it in gear and let it out. Sometimes when I do that, it flows in strange and interesting directions. Correct the grammar and spellings later. Hey, it's a blog, so who's counting?

The haircut: What's the big deal about that? Well, I had an odd observation about that last night, and now it isn't coming back to me. Something about keeping hair the same length. Struck me as amusing at the time. And now ... see what I mean about capturing the thought at the moment? Now it's not so fresh ... and it's gone.

About my lost friend: She lives about 125 miles away, and now she has to move down to Chicago (400 miles away) to take care of her mom. I didn't get many chances to see her (last visited in February) and was planning to visit in a month or so ... and now it's not going to happen. We were just friends, and I enjoyed being with her. It's not going to happen again, though.

Need more friends. People seem to do that easier when they're younger, but I wonder why it isn't easy now, now that I'm at an age when people should be more realistic about themselves and their place in the universe.

Like me. This year, my theme should be "Everything You Know Is Wrong." I've been reassessing the feelings I've had for most of my life about religion, about monogamy. I've been believing in them less and less with every passing year, and now, through what I call internet spelunking, I've come to realize that many people feel that way.

It's not that I disbelieve in God/Jesus (though I have no way of knowing whether some other religion is correct--this is just the only one I have ever experienced). Who's to say? So I believe in God (to use the name I am most familiar with), but I'm not comfortable with religion. It's doctrine, it's preaching. When I stumbled upon the Liberated Christians website, it was a real eye-opener. You mean to say there is more than one person who feels the way I do?

I've been reading it from time to time, and I suppose that will be a link on this page before too long.

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There! See what I mean about putting the brain in gear and just letting it flow?