Why I am here

When I have the internet open on my lap top, I feel like the whole world is sitting there waiting for me, like the world is sitting on my lap. So, when I go to use word processing software to record my thoughts, I close my internet browser. The portal is closed and the world disappears.

What is an appropriate space to share my thoughts? Is the most appropriate space the air around my lips, so I can exhale my thoughts, and let them float around the room until they settle in a pile of clothes or books? Or is a tangible piece of paper the appropriate space? I can leave my thoughts in ink or graphite. But no one else will ever see the paper. The paper either gets lost in the mess around me, or it is filed into a folder of other thoughts quietly awaiting…Awaiting what? I don’t know. Or should I let my thoughts sit on my computer in electronic code, let them sit in a file accessible only through the clicking of buttons? And still, I am my only audience.. Or is a blog the appropriate space? Should I share my thoughts with strangers? Share them with the world…the very world that I cut myself off from so that I could write the thoughts down? What is an appropriate space? Then again, what is space? Scholars spend their lives answering that question. I hope to use this blog to informally explore the relationship between people and their environments.

With this first blog entry, I am seeing what it feels like to leave the portal open and allow my words to travel where they may. After I post my thoughts, instead of feeling like the world is waiting for me, I get to sit here waiting for the world. So please, World, leave kind comments, and send interesting observations and thoughts my way.