About a blog

When deciding what to blog about on a regular basis I was a bit intimidated to come up with a unique slice of the “ideasphere” that hasn’t already been exhausted with multiple bloggers. I don’t think I’ve come up with a perfect solution yet, but it got me thinking…

In the midst of running a busy life (it seems that these days running a life is akin to running a multinational organization) it is easy to forget that there’s more than work-school-bills-TV and pre-cooked, frozen low-fat something-or-other for supper. If the modern-day survivor could manage to tear eyeballs away from screen long enough to consider and appreciate that neighbours on the other side of your fence can be friends and the vast majority of humankind sustains themselves on less than what we westerners spend on coffee (yet likely enjoys a much higher quality of life), maybe we’ll have a fighting chance. Whew.

That was a run-on sentence but I felt it was necessary because it leads me to wonder what (we already know who: Al Gore) will save the world? What tools and ideas are at our disposal to begin to undo life’s disarray? It’s said that civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos. Maybe we can apply the popular long tail theory to micro ideas (instead of products) – the small but brilliant thoughts generated by unpretentious and conscientious common folk – that when all put together make this place a bit more habitable.

I’ll be looking to some esteemed aha!-provoking bloggers for help, but if you have available to share a small moment or idea of cleverness, please let me know.