Testing the Waters

I have a lot of thoughts in my head.  Some are really stupid like how did it come to be that someone thought to put soft sheets of a paper on a roll and hang it next to the toilet? See? Stupid. Thankfully, many of my thoughts aren't quite that inane.  I like to contemplate people and their futures.  I wonder things like why there is such a disparity between people's situations in my country.  I ponder things like heaven and hell.  I question everything.  When, why, where, and how are staples in my vocabulary.  Many times I drive people crazy by asking and subsequently forcing them to think about something they long since thought they had figured out.  I hurt for hurting people and wonder if there will ever be a way to fix them all.  My remedies are idealistic in nature and almost always impossible as "fixes" to any problems.  I am at that intersection in life where my idealism is turning to pragmatism and it has made me sad. Did you know that not everything can be solved by a group hug?  I know, right?

This blog will be an intersection where history, politics, social justice, religion, spirituality, responsibility, awareness, disabilities, and life in general meet.  Although I was raised with seriously-evangelical-extreme-conservatism type roots, I am happily recovered.  I'd like to think I am a moderate but truth is I hang more to the left these days. Except for extreme ideology, I enjoy debating back and forth.  I have a son with a terminal brain disorder who requires full-time care.  At 7 he has already outlived his life expectancy.  I do think he has changed me.  Not necessarily for the better; perhaps for the clearer. Things that are important are more clear now. Life is more clear.  Or is it?  Come along with me and let's try to make the world better one discussion at a time!