Evolve.

e·volve  (-vlv) (verb) e·volv·ing, e·volves 1. To undergo gradual change; develop, mature. OK I'll admit it!!  I have been hesitant and a bit resistant to embrace technology.  No, I still do not own an iPod. No, I am not particularly interested in owning a Nook. Yes, I prefer taking notes with pen & paper and quite frankly I am not entirely sure what a Blog is or if this experiment will be successful; is the word Blog a noun? I digress. . . The key, then, lies in how I choose to define success and so for the sake of setting an clear intention here it is: ☺ To keep a current, quasi-organized record of my thoughts, experiences, interests & insights.  � Offer up questions that I, sad to report, usually ask myself in hopes that readers (if any) might  contribute their own perspective on the topic...respectfully, I hope. ✍ Lastly, to exercise my right brain, rarely accessed or exercised writing abilities.       I hope this can be an improvement, dare I say, the evolution of what used to be my journal. Not your everyday "Dear Diary",  I am no longer satisfied with just watching a movie, just reading a book, just listening to the news. As a researcher I enjoy going beyond, sometimes too beyond perhaps, the obvious. I am annoyed with the media for gross oversimplifications, premature and poorly informed conclusions and most of all lack of relevant, contextual insights; we do not live in a vacuum!! These journals eventually evolved into an unabridged, random collection of those elaborations: I watch a movie, I want to watch the Extras on the DVD to hear the Producer explain how the script was born- even retrospectively this makes the movie more pleasurable J. I read a book, I want to summarize and extract all the useful information to cross reference later a.k.a probably never. I say "useful" because I also have not read Fiction in over 10 years. I am trying to change this; I was uncomfortable "wasting" reading time by not "learning" anything. I now understand how silly that notion is and that fiction does and has throughout history taught many, many important lessons.  Alas, I can change! Evolve even!    -AKT