Begin the break...

Herewith betrays a vague promise to myself from a long time ago: to studiously avoid, at any cost, ever having that most bourgeouis - and God help me, teenage - trapping of suburban angst: a buh-laah-gue.

Then something changed.

Somehow, in the recent past, this has come to interest me. Some...thing...seems to be coalescing or finding a way to express itself. Is it creative expression? Or release? Self discovery? An...epiphany? Is there anything at all or am I simply restless? I don't know right now, but it seems there is something clutching for air and maybe this is the straw that will float it.

And maybe not. It’s unclear what this would be for me; how it would fit in; how it would rig out; how it would function; or what purpose it would serve.

But for now and if nothing else, this might be a good place to track interesting lyrics, poems, expressions, aphorisms, conversations, observations, or turns of phrase.

-jmh