First Blog

Lindley used to get on my case about writing a blog, but I just never felt that I had anything that would behoove me to have on the internet (you don't really want to post regarding work-related issues, and, let's face it, that is about 63% of my waking life). But last night I began reading The Kite Runner. The book centers around (and I'm really not very far into the book so this could be wrong) a young boy with a passion for literature. As often happens with me when I get into a good book, I became inspired to begin writing something.

Aside: Unfortunately, with my 5-10 minutes in the morning that I get to read, I often choose more mindless books like James Patterson, Daniel Koontz, etc.... But every once in a while, I find a gem and just can barely stop reading. (You know, I'm talking Harry Potter type good! Okay, that's actually a true statement about the can't stop reading and Harry Potter, but that's not exactly the caliber novel I was discussing.) Though I haven't read this book since high school, one of those for me was Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton. I wanted to write just like that...Create your own rules of punctuation, make the book pour out emotions like a country pouring out blood. Hmm...that doesn't make it sound quite as appealing as it was, but then again that was 15 years ago. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet was one of the more recent ones, and I was hoping to be inspired by Little Women, but other than a few chuckles, it's not really done it for me.

Okay, so back to the original point. Where were we: 1. Lindley always wanted me to blog. 2. I started The Kite Runner. 3. I thought I should start a blog. Since Lindley does quite a bit of blogging about the family, I doubt that will be much of my focus. Unfortunately, I don't really have much of a focus at all! I may post some of my much-in-demand "poems from a cubicle." I haven't decided whether that's a good idea or not...Plus there are only two or three of them. So, that could simmer down very quickly. I also know that most of you will not be able to bear through a blog this long on a regular basis so I will generally try not to go this long and ramble so much.

I will end on one note of recent interest to me:
1. I was reading in Matthew 6 the other day, and was definitely slowed down by the following:
"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
"The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
"No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money."

Whether I'm right or wrong, I do think I have a handle on this now, but in my current environment success is definitely defined differently than the above and I need to be careful.