A sign on a guidepost

I'm writing this blog as a stream of consciousness. I know some of what I am going to write before I do it, but I hate being too tightly wrapped, too self-controlling, up front. That's the job for editing later.

Often, I write about people I know. That's tricky, especially since they might discover this blog (because, probably, I sent them the link) and find passages about them, at times highlighting discomfiting observations of how they handled the challenges with which they were presented. For that reason, I'm trying very hard to wrap myself up tighter than usual when writing about my friends. And of course I don't identify them personally.

But also, and this is the point, even though I wrote the first post a few days ago, I am revising it whenever something I dashed off strikes me as incomplete, wrong, misleading, or pointlessly revealing. I think the whole thing is an evolving process. Writing is, after all, the method I use to think. It evolves. And so will this blog, hopefully to the benefit of those who face these kinds of decisions and procedures.

And if I am found murdered, be sure to ascertain the identity of the people I write about :)