Aside...

Aside:  I’m changing the nature and format of the writings that I’ve published here, but not the overall topic.  Bridging the Divide remains as a fundamental objective.  Divide of what?  Well, that’s what I’m exploring.  What is it that divides us?  Not only from one another but from ourselves?  What keeps us from being our best selves? What keeps our society from being the best society? What keeps us from being the best partner, the best parent, the best of whatever we aspire to?  Not a competitive best, but the best in terms of what heredity and circumstance offer us.  Grace to some, blind dumb luck to others. 

Bridging, what does this mean?  To cross, to integrate, to increase connection to.  So together, Bridging the Divide means to cross over, integrate and increase connection to what keeps us from being our best selves, what keeps our society from being the best society.  And there is no getting around the fact that we are, each of us is, the fundamental unit from which society is made.

In the past I treated this blog, and the writings which preceded it within a formal framework of publication.  My own rules to be sure, and not of sufficient rigor that they were able to produce a product having perfect grammar or spelling or logic or relevance or interest.    Still, it was on the other side of the current continuum of tweets and Facebook posts, on the side of “resistance to make public” until I had edited and revised to a point of resignation – “this is the best I can do.”

I’m going to compromise and allow for more imperfection, more half-baked, ill-conceived ideas to escape the safety of my private world.   Because the times have changed.  Because it appears that we have lost our collective ability to integrate logic and subjective experience into a vision of a collective future.  A future in which the widest breadth of human experience and potential is allowed to evolve into the greatest good.