First Offerings

First blog offerings really shouldn't be meditations on the name you've hastily thrown together for your blog, but I came ready prepared with a real doozy only to find myself shot down with taunts of plagiarism. 'My Life In A Gush Of Boasts'- just the right amount of swaggering culture and beard-stroking wordplay, but... no go. And suddeny you're sitting there with a blank box you've got to fill in, a name you have to commit to instantly, a name that however you look at it is going to influence your approach to the blog in some way, minor or major. So- a fence around wisdom. And that's silence. Silence is a fence around wisdom. (So google tells me.) And if there's one thing I can point to as being a purpose in my life at the moment, it's a quest for silence. Peace. Whether it is in the music I listen to or in my sophomore fumblings towards some kind of siritual contentment, silence and peace are the companions whose coat tails keep slipping from my grip. And, on a more prosaic level, the quest entails a desperate need to move away from the noisiest, most inconsiderate neighbours a poor soul can imagine. And while, finances being what they are, that isn't going to be happening any time soon, it's the enticement of silence that will hopefully keep me focused.