HELLO.  I meant to let others know about this new site a few entries ago: the idea was that I’d let others in on this when I hit 10 posts.  I didn’t want a false-start blog.  It had happened to be before, earlier in 2012, and I didn’t want to be a repeat offender.  I let one friend in on it when I saw that we had recent entries that shared a title.  Other than that, the word’s been mum.

So this morning, Donald Miller posts something about the concept of self-promotion.  It’s an interesting thing: selling yourself to live.  Something about “integrity” is at stake, underlies our misgivings about putting ourselves out there and pointing to ourselves repeatedly.  Miller does a good job of acknowledging that in his own life.  So, after reading his thoughts, I thought it would be a good time to invite you into this space.  The plan is for it to last a while, to have some rhythm to it, some consistency.  The plan is to get a little more personal in place (to move beyond television and movies), because my life is near the end of what I think is a long, slow turn around a very big corner.  We’ll see.

Anyway, to those of you reading this: welcome aboard.  Comment as you want.  Let me know what you think.

And check out Donald Miller’s blog entry on self-promotion here.