Hibernation

I'll admit, I considered taking down this blog...

I think I just got tired of hearing the sound of my own voice. ("Blah, blah, blah, blah. And then, blah. And blah, blah some more.")

And then my template quit working. I've forgotten how I even built the custom one I was using, and I was sort of dreading having to relearn how to set it all up again.

But after a long hiatus of not even thinking about this blog, I've decided that I'm going to keep it. For now, at least.

My husband is in Afghanistan, and I know he checks in with it occasionally. (Hi, Mr Egg! :-) )

And I do like having a place to post ideas...sort of like leaving evidence of one's existence in the world!

So I guess those are reasons enough to leave my blog here.

As for the template, I'm cheating for now and just using one of the generic ones that Blogger provides. If I get really ambitious, I'll figure out how to customize it again.

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What have I been doing during my period of hibernation?

Reading. Lots. All kinds of things.

Thinking. Lots. Still trying to go back and figure out what I know for sure. All I've figured out is that I don't really know anything for sure. But I think that's a good thing. :-)

Writing. Some. Although obviously not here!

To get us back in blog mode, here's something I wrote yesterday:

"I imagine that sometimes there must be herd animals caught in a stampede who don't want to join in the stampede. Especially if it's headed over a cliff.

But when you're caught in the midst of a group of stampeding, panicked beasts, you have no choice... you must run with them or be trampled to death.

Moral: Don't join herds. He who joins herds is forced to do stupid and dangerous things."

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I've also been making a list of things that I want to learn more about before I die. Here are some of them, in no particular order:

Numbers, Birds, Hands, Meditation
Words, Art, Destiny vs. Choice
Color, World Religions, Rainbows
Light, Turtles, Beauty
Philosophy, Sound, DNA
Water, Plants, Book Binding
Faces, Classic Literature, The Ocean
Energy, Sentence Structure, Cultures
Time, Eyes, Symbols
Thoughts, Poetry, Truth
Dreams, Codes, Intuition
Animals, Latin, Insects
Quantum Physics, Artists, Space & Stars
Waves (sound, light, ocean), Mathematicians, Migration
Music, Philosophers, Insanity vs. Sanity
Trees, Writers, The Human Body
Personalities, Rocks, Rituals
Music Theory, Communication, Spiderwebs