Noise

It's loud.

The cacophony  in my head and about the world is a riot of noise and fury. It overwhelms the senses and forces attention be paid. I have no choice but to ride along and allow it to carry me through, but there are small things which allow me to corral the wild things in my mind and bring about a semblance of order. One of those is writing.

Primarily, I have been doing that writing on Facebook, and much of that writing has been political. Not surprising, given the circumstances surrounding a certain Cheeto in Chief, but it only fuels the rage. I don't get to release that rage. I get to either have militant agreement or disagreement in that hyper-polarized forum. It leads to rancor, it leads to hurt feelings and willful ignorance on the part of the reader or myself and it serves to do... not much. "The din in my head, it's too much and it's no good."

So I seek out another forum. One which will allow me to practice this catharsis for myself without the distraction. It will allow me to collect thoughts and share them in a long form, not restricted by the tl;dr lifestyle of social media. One which allows me to write essays and doesn't necessarily demand a persistent checking of alerts and responses adding to the demands of an already busy mind. Fewer beeps and whistles and buzzes letting me know that some friend or other has either agreed or some stranger has disagreed with something I said. It quiets the mind to not have those demands.

I guess I am seeking solitude in some ways. I don't expect many will find this blog, since I don't really plan on sharing it out too widely. It's mainly for me and my musings, after all. A way to think about things for myself and get them out of my head where I can look at them. I mean, sure, I'll probably get some readers, and those readers might even comment, but all in all this will not be the constant ping... ping... ping... like  DNS attack on my brain. I want to be able to think again, and this will help.

Welcome to.