Whatever Will Become of This...

MindsEyeMuse is all about the finer things in life.  A collection of thoughts, imagery, and other random writings about the people, places, and ideas I’ve come across throughout my 27 [and counting] years.  A perception through my own distorted lens.  Perception is a thing to be both appreciated and applied cautiously, although I’m not sure where cautiously will come into play here.  I do consider myself pretty steady with grammar and syntax…

For the first blog post, I was going to find a nice quote to start with.  I like quotes because they’re inspiring.  Then I found Ralph Waldo Emerson's, "I hate quotations.  tell me what you know."  Well okay, thanks for the quote Ralph.  

For one thing, I can tell you that one can quite easily find some excellent Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes these days in mere seconds, through a simple search on a machine called Google, especially when a particular writer is feeling in a bine for his newly untested blog.

The things I enjoy the most in life, and will probably talk about a lot here are: writing [of course], photography, film, travel, rollerblading, hockey, good people, admirable sustenance, self-discovery, inspiring stories, comedy, music, and the like. 

Just a thoughtful list, but, in all seriousness I hope by you’re coming here and by reading what I have typed up so far, you are able to gain something and/or participate in some thoughtful or imaginative way.  I hope I inspire you or, better yet, I hope you inspire me to keep going.  I always loved writing and had a knack for it, it seemed. 

I thoroughly enjoyed it when I was younger.  I discovered it especially in the 9^th grade, when my English teacher pulled me into the hallway for a discussion.  I thought I was in trouble, and I nearly was.  She asked me very politely and told me that if I told her the truth I would not get in trouble.  She genuinely wanted to know if I plagiarized my most recent creative writing assignment, and found the story – which was a descriptive short thriller I wrote, about a villain chasing a young couple from a hotel and through the woods into their vehicle and off a cliff – somewhere on the internet.  I guess it was the year 2000, after all.  I looked her dead in the eye and said, no, I wrote it and came up with it entirely on my own.  To this day, I don’t know if she truly believed me, but I like to think she did.   I got an A.  That was the end of that story.

Time to get it out.  I have since come 13 years into the future, where I regret not pursuing writing with more conviction, nor properly documenting my life up unto this point.  Hence this blog.  In the ways of inspiration, I provoked my wife – who was full of wonderful ideas – to create her own blog over a year ago, and she has since galvanized her own thoughts into an inspiration in of itself.  It’s about time I got inspired.

Naturally I hope and believe that this blog will mold and shift over the coming months and years, until I have cemented a voice into it, and the abyss of history [or the internet].  So, keep checking back at MindsEyeMuse to see what in the hell I’m up to at any given moment.  I’ll be sure to do my best to keep the content fresh and keep my mind’s eye open to the finer things in life. 

Thank you for reading.

Until next time...

P.S. - A special thanks to Ralph Waldo Emerson for all of his wonderful writings and inspirations, especially his thoughtful act of personally calling me out 150 years in advance.

P.P.S. - here's a song by the late great Eyedea called "The River," to brighten your day, and it also maybe sums up my blog's beginning well.  I'm jumping in the river y'all.