Re-introducing myself

I'm back.

For now, anyway.

I've been thinking a lot on what I would say if (and not "when") I returned to the blogosphere. What I would say on this blog, what I would do, what my mission would be. Like with any and every other literary endeavor and discipline, my m.o. is and has been to figure it out as I go along. In the past, I've even outlined a mission statement, specifically for myself, but put it out on the screen so that I could and would refer back to it. The truth though is that has rarely worked. Even if I share this with others, I could easily circumvent that by just not telling them how I'm doing with whatever literary endeavor I'm doing.

A couple weeks ago, I had a dream where it included a recent event or two that already happened, but with it, in the dream I was starting a new blog, along with questionable dream content that also had me dusting off the archives of my old blog and resurrecting it. Most of the times I realize dreams don't mean much of anything, but the few times I took a dream and acted on what I thought was being highlighted, it led to something else that eventually begat something else, and so on. 

In possibly my next post or so, I will share advice I've been taking in from a YouTube video on the "don'ts" of blogging. I will admit I'm already breaking at least one of the rules. My hope is that my soon-to-be-articulated mission statement will help me stay on track. Another of the rules, though, gave me just enough encouragement not only to try this out again but to do so now, rather than later.

Also in one of my early return posts, I will articulate my mission statement for the blog at this phase of my life, some of the rules I intend to set up for myself so as to keep me on track with the mission of this blog, and the larger picture of what I hope posting in this blog at this time will eventually lead to. In another post -- or series of posts -- I will give a few life updates. (And there are a few.)

Finally, as I begin writing at this current phase, I will still continue dusting off the archives of the blog I had when I was a younger man. I will not be reposting every post -- in fact, I won't be reposting most of them -- but my hope is to, through select posts, give a picture of my former presence online, with the purpose of eliding it with my current blogging self as well as what I envision my future blogging presence to be. You'll discover quickly that I am a big believer in the power of a story, and my hope is to resurrect, continue, and reinvent the story that I have created and am creating. How long this will continue is anyone's guess.