A new blog for what reason?

Ages ago I built websites. I posted my poetry. I ranted and raved to myself and then vomited it up onto the cyberspace virtual somethingorother. Then I told stories. Once upon a time, I started a blog. Another time ago, I had several blogs. They weren't blogs that probably anyone read, and they had zero impact factor. And I didn't care about the impact factor. I didn't care about people reading my blogs (aside from standard narcissistic vanity). I just wrote. I kept blogs on OpenDiary and LiveJournal. I had blogs tucked away within WordPress and Blogger. I posted poems and streams of consciousness to DeviantArt. I shared my words on Facebook and MySpace and other places I've long forgotten about.

Then I went silent. The silence stretched onward. It became an unending lack of writing that obliterated the sense of ability to write. I unwrote my sense of self with a sense of ambiguous nothingness.

I did not like it. It was an internal prison of my own devices and own devise that should never have had the opportunity to reach maturity. It was hideous and haunting and all sorts of words beginning with the letter "h" and beginning with other letters as well. There are possibilities that medications played roles in these stifling losses of creativity. It may have been distress, or stress or all sorts of other countless variables.

I know that no amount of analysis that I conduct into discovering the origins of my afflictions would present useful data in a timely fashion. So I will spill words onto screen and then move on.

I was quiet.

Now I am not.

Welcome to the new blog. Welcome to the new ranting and raving and possibilities for exploration of the mind of me. Enjoy if you wish. Criticize if you choose to.

I'd say "the reality is: " but the reality of reality is that, such a statement requires qualifiers and all sorts of philosophical considerations. Therefore, this entry is simply a stream of consciousness to say that this blog exists because I am returning to writing and returning to blogging. This blog will be used for all sorts of purposes. I think we'll just have to discover what I use it for as I use it.

Enjoy.