To my readers

To the people who are reading and/or following this blog, I say thank you. That is not all I wish to say to you but, I thought it would be good to say it first because if I didn't you would be wondering "when is he going to thank me for spending 6 to 12 minutes of my day caring what he thinks?" So now that we've addressed that, what do I REALLY want to say to you? Well, tonight, through this post, it is my desire to inspire you. I shy away from trying to do this directly because the human being has developed a fascinating ability to resist direct inspiration, and then label it preaching. So tonight, in order to inspire you, I have to first trick you. I have to fool you into thinking that this post has nothing to do with you so that you read it all the way to the end, only to find out that yes, it has EVERYTHING to do with you. Life is like this sometimes. We spend so much time buried IN the story, that we don't consciously realize what part we're actually playing. Then we hit the end or a crucial moment and we think, "how the heck did I get here?" Yes, life mesmerizes us, hypnotizes us, paralyzes us, and ultimately tricks us. But it doesn't have to be that way. That's one of the reasons I write. Because somehow through the words on this page I go from living, breathing, living, breathing, living, breathing...... to, thinking, pausing, thinking, pausing, thinking, pausing, and then living and breathing much more wisely and much more deeply than I ever did before. That's what writing is for me, my way of paying attention to life as it unfolds. So by now you may have realized that you've been tricked, but hopefully at this point it doesn't matter. It is my desire to inspire you tonight to pay attention to life. Write life down as it happens, think out loud, say your dreams back to yourself, get angry at what happened in line at the grocery store and understand why you're angry, read the signs, even if you have to stop for a second. Why? Who knows.....I assume though it's kinda like peanut butter with jelly, it just tastes better that way.