a preface

Below is the first post I ever wrote for this blog. While it's two years old and not exactly on the new eco-blog theme I've settled on, I'm keeping it up because it explains this blog's name and I still really like the quote (if you can get over the whole mystical buddhism thing Kerouac had going on).

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shooting stars of thought are tiny glimpses of inspiration that may suddenly strike at any time, in any context. say, for example, the moment during my lunch hour when for some reason i felt compelled to start a "blog." or at least that's my interpretation.

i actually stumbled upon the phrase "shooting stars of thought" during a period in high school when i was infatuated by jack kerouac and dying to drive across the country. now even though the infatuation has faded and i've experienced the thrill of driving cross country without a schedule or plan, the quote has still stuck with me (i actually carry it around in my wallet). so here it is:

"There's nothing to life but the living of it...hold still man, regain your love of life and go down from this mountain and simply be-be-be the infinite fertilities of the one mind of infinity. make no comments, complaints, criticisms, apprasials, avowals, sayings, shooting stars of thought, just flow, flow, be you all, be your what it is, it is only what it always is...so shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry."

so i guess you could say this site is an attempt to catch those shooting stars, to freeze the fleeting moments in the passing of time, to capture, collect and express the comments, complaints, criticisms, apprasials and anything else that i find floating in my mind, to give me a space to contain my thoughts so the rest of me can live, travel, adventure and bless without a hint of remorse.