This blog is intended ...

This blog is intended to be an alternate venue from Aimee’s, or whatever café or drinking establishment that you prefer. Conversation, not coming to resolution, about the human condition, is the aim. The human condition is a preposterously broad subject, so several guidelines should be in order.

The focus should be on one's own lived experiences or the lived experiences of others and their and our thoughtful attempts to ask and answer what it all means. Referencing scientific and literary sources, that thinking which comes out of and looks back at the natural world, and especially the human experience in that world, is a good place to start. Speculative religion and current politics, except in passing, can be discussed elsewhere.

There should be no hurrying or pressure. Writers should resist adding a new post until at least a week has passed since the last posting or comment if there are any. Silence will imply neither consent or disinterest. Sometimes there is simply nothing that needs to be said. A good question, carefully formulated, will usually surpass any answer that can be given.

In many ways, everything has already been said on the subject of the human condition, but we here have neither heard or read all of it and there is no harm in saying something again. In music, notably, there are variations on a theme. Appreciating our lives and our condition need not be like a piece played only once and then the good and interesting parts never replayed. Thoughts expressed here might be a playing of a note over and over again, savoring the sweetness, coming to terms with the dissonance. 

And then again our lives are like a song, played once. This hints at our human condition. No need here to try to be overly definitive.