Date:                           November 7, 2009

Location:                    Daytona Beach, FL

0900

            Writing a blog is challenging as well as interesting.  I fear that those that choose to read my cerebral wandering find it much more challenging than they find it interesting on any given day.  And yet, here I am positioned in my “throne” as my lovely wife calls my chair and I am attempting to fill a page or so of my electronic paper with thoughts of a life that may not always be exciting and of much interest to the living world. I could ramble on with my wealth of hindsight knowledge and explain how the world we see unfolding before us would be so much better if they only did it my way.  I could explain how the life others live could be so much happier if they could only see their individual problems with the clarity and in-depth perception that I understand their lives to be.  Profundity is such an easy game to play. If only the world listened to me and valued my awesome opinions.

            There are many days when I get caught up in the wealth and depth of my own intelligence and can not help but share it with the world from my little soap box called “Travels with Aurora.”  Yesterday may well have been one of those moments.  Yet as I reflect on what I have expounded upon on my page of self valued opinions I can not help but place that moment into context of today’s environment.  Might I have said something that might at a future time be determined a flag as to the unstableness of my sanity?  There are, I would presume, many people that might wonder about the state of my sanity on any given day, at any given moment as it is.  It is a salient fact in today’s electronic world that once you have a thought, decided to share that thought and actually completed these tasks your opinions are open for the world to, at any time in the future, interpret and use as a base for their opinion of either you or your mindful meanderings.  Sadly today it may not be just your friends and family that are evaluating your postulations.

            It is from this sullen perspective that I start my blog this morning and after nearly half an hour I have progressed to absolutely nowhere, and with great aplomb I might add.  Writing a blog can be challenging even if not interesting, as I stated at the onset of this mornings offering.  I have far too many opinions on what is happening in our world to dare share them on a semi public forum.  My slightly extreme pacifistic liberal ideas are not always well received and seldom as fully understood as I had hoped they might be when I tried to formulate each sentence.  I may, at times, attempt to tweak an extreme opposing idea with literary sarcasm and usually accomplish irritation instead of enlightenment.  Thus failing in what ever my original desire might have been.  I should often apologize for my literary indiscretion, but that might mean I did not mean to accomplish what it probably was I so effectively did.  Poking an opposing political or social opinion in the eye is such fun and self rewarding sometimes.  I do realize that opinions are like some body orifices, we all have them. It is just that once I have gone to the trouble of formulating my own opinion I do so want to share my intellect with the world.  It is not that my opinions are always perfect, but they are always mine and certainly right.  That is until I change my mind.

            I have accomplished my goal of a page of thoughts.  You have now wasted nearly half an hour trying to figure out what it is I am trying to say and now I must go shopping for a present for my granddaughter.  That is really quite a bit to accomplish on any given Saturday morning.  I am off to Orlando in my shorts and short sleeved shit.  The sky is blue and the air is clear.  It is a bit cool today and may only reach the lower edge of the 80s, but I think we can adapt.  I still have my opinions, I still have my advise and I still think I have my sanity all of which I will, I am sure, attempt to share with you on a future visit to blog world.  Writing a blog is challenging and sometimes interesting and so very often a good means to waste an hour or so on a beautiful warm and breezy Florida morning.  Go forth and opine.

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