Why I Write and Have a Blog?

For several decades I have been writing essays of current matters, either of what is happening around me or what is ruminating in my mind. Writing is a way of communicating matters of significance to a person. But also, it 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 trodden 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 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.