Waking Up and Looking Back

    This past year has been brutal for many, and while I've been spared from the most insidious forms of hardship that I see around me, I've certainly come face-to-face with the harshest realities about my sense of self and values.

    As I read the contents of my past creations on this blog, I can see quite clearly something that only a recently completed degree in philosophy could reveal -- a collection of anxious rambling. Happily, I've been commending myself for at least cobbling together many of the ideas that I began to have here, but ultimately recognize that my attempts to communicate them are obtuse and unnecessarily verbose. In other words, I apologize to any readers for the word vomit that exists in the dates prior to this post. Moving forward, I will attempt to make this blog more coherent and more concise, which ultimately I hope makes it both more enjoyable and more useful.