ONE FEATURE that I like about this blog that my old blog (which can be found here) is how it allows for filtering for different strains of thought.  As I type this, I’ve got ten official “categories” running.  By using the drop-down box at the top of the page, a reader can trace thoughts and commentary on any of a number of things.  Most of the time, what I post about is related to something found on the internet or passed on to me by another.  But there’s one option I wanted to emphasize, a strain of thought that kind of exists on his own with few if any links: The Long Story.

The second way of reading this blog, beyond any daily posting of videos or links, is to follow The Long Story that I’m trying to articulate over these next few weeks and months.  We are all of us in the process of growth and change.  The walls of life’s maze shift all the time it seems.  I thought that when my friends Amy and Danny left Hawaii that I had turned the last difficult corner for a while.  I now see and understand that is not the case.  My college political science professor spoke often of “the vicissitudes of life.”  That was over a decade ago, and I still find myself working through life’s changes.

So: two ways to read this blog.  The first is to follow it as a series of links and images, thoughts on movies and music and television.  The second way is the more personal way, the hop and skip and weave of a life trying to be lived and written about in a world continually changing, always moving on.  It’s a long story, of course.  I used to refer to it as “the long game,” but I now know that this isn’t something you play at, it is something you live and share and tell.  You’ll be seeing more Long Story entries over the next couple of weeks.  Some important reflection is definitely on the way.