A beginning. . . .

[stusegal]

At the urging of some friends - and out of an inner need for some form of “bully pulpit” - I’ve decided to commit some thoughts on an ongoing basis to a Live Journal (or blog). It is not necessarily my intent to make daily entries, but I find there are times that I am hit with thoughts that are so compelling, or enlightening, or epiphanal that perhaps they should be shared.

Things like:

• Is modern life more enlightening than life in the past, or is it by its’ very nature more insulating?
• Everyone should have at least one day in a 450HP car or on a Superbike.
  
• The delicate balance between staying fit and injuring yourself trying.
• Will todays' art, music, literature survive, and. . . . does it matter?

As I’ve aged I’ve become more convinced that my opinions about certain things are, and have always been, right - but about other things age has brought new understanding. Certainly the world of ‘07 is a vastly different, infinitely more intimate, place than when I got here in 1949 - the question is, and has always been, are we moving in the direction of a better world, or are we just moving?

Stu. . . . .5/3/07