To my Visitors, Welcome

Being at a loss for words right now is perhaps the most apt beginning possible. There is an overpowering sense of joy and opportunity that halts me. I am also stunned by the prospect that your words and my words, the things we have said and the things we have yet to say are potent. Possibly, most of all I am at the crossroads of that particular and wonderful contradiction that encourages writing as a medium to express the incapability of expression, both to ask questions and attempt pronouncements. There is a madness in this quixotic concession, and I embrace it with gusto not in spite of its flaws, but because of them.

While literature was not a part of my life growing up, it has become the paper prow that carries me on. I do not think my case is exceptional; yes, I did read a few books here and there in my spare time growing up, I did my school summer reading, and definitely tried to do well in English class. More than anything I was ensorcelled by the possibility of role-playing games. One may be brave, and heroism became proportional to your capacity to enage with the world and others. Forums for storytelling unrolled in yellow scrolls couched in musty caves. Funny as it is, I may have read more of the books within the games than I did in this world. But the impression is felt so many years later as an adult with a desire to respond to and with the world we have inherited. This, for me, meant becoming more serious about reading the stories of other people who made an effort to change this world through means that required wisdom and meticulousness. Writing, seriously writing, is still quite foreign to me. But many of our most essential ambitions have come to us on the paperback spines of great writers' words. Truthfully we will call people brave for the sacrifices they make and the adversity they endure. And we, friends, are the inheritors of bravery, and I want to hope that my bravery will be to write something meaningful.

The creation of this site is meant primarily as a place to gather creative writing I publish, small essays that I write in my spare time, and memes for your perusing pleasure. It establishes a shifting digital center around which my attempts to learn can condense and be shared. That being said, I would very much welcome you to leave a message or contact me; in this, we practice the engagement needed for this world in all of its grim and glorious potential.

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Image: Venezia, Winter 2018