a culture of language and thought

It’s January, so everyone’s talking about resolutions. My partner, Jon, and a group he belongs to chose to call them intentions and I kind of prefer this… Resolutions sound so, well, resolute and that approach doesn’t always work for me. When I inevitably fail to stick with one or more of the many “resolutions” I set for myself, I only feel bad and tend to wonder why I should bother trying to stick with the rest! So “intentions” it is…

Now that I’ve dissected the semantics of it, I suppose you’d like to hear some of my intentions. Well, that’s another thing I dislike… Once you speak them out loud to the world, you’re committed to following through. I’ve committed to writing this blog out loud on more than one occasion, and look what happened there! Six months went by without a single post. So rather than jinx my intentions, just stay tuned and I hope you’ll be pleased to see regular posts.

This year has started out with a much-deserved and appreciated reprieve from being overloaded with work. I’ve thus taken the time to update my site a little and write this post. On the top of the lefthand sidebar you’ll see a place where you can click to receive an RSS feed of this blog. That way, rather than having to check in every once in a while, you’ll be notified whenever a new post or comment is posted (two separate RSS, you can choose). I hope you’ll sign up!