Why Write or Have a Blog?

For several decades  I have been writing letters and essays  of current matters, either of what is happening around me or what is ruminating in my mind. Writing certainly is a  way of communicating matters of significance to a person. But more than that, it also helps me to think more clearly and systematically on the subject matter. Furthermore, it is a literary photograph to which one can return later and look at it again to enjoy, or experience what was felt earlier.   Writing gives me time to explore a subject in more detail than casual thinking or conversation. But then why blog? Obviously blogging is a method of communicating for the present audience, who ever that may be. It is a display and  perpetual archive and reference point for later readers. It is of the conviction that what I have experienced in life and thought may be of interest and value to others. Writing also gives me a sense that my life will continue after I am gone. I wish my ancestors had left a clearer footprint of where they had trod physically, emotionally and intellectually. If any posterity or otherwise wonders about me, they can return and trace my steps by my writings. Hopefully they will gain another perspective for their lives. So in these blogs, you will find items of events, feelings, inspiration, and even some paradoxes of life in humor. So don't read everything, just what piques your interest or catches you mental eye.