Introductions

Helllloooooo World!

This has been a long time coming, people have been telling me for years to start a blog.  "People need to know someone like you exists!" someone once told me.

As Viewed From Along the Edges is not to suggest I am especially edgy, hah.  In my rebellious teenage years I remember striving for a fine line I imagined along defiance, questioning, breaking the rules... just enough but not enough to get in serious trouble.  It occurred to me that rebelling too hard, too far makes you an "enemy of the state", to be locked away, criminal or insane.  Too far outside the norm and the message is not understood.  Few people listen to PETA when they throw red paint on fur coats; whereas in contrast, as much criticism as you may have for Gore's eco- push, he brought about more actual political buoyancy to the movement than had previously been possible by the original leftist groups.

Later in life I'll always remember a college friend commenting on my getting along with everyone, but that I'll never really fit in anywhere.  That is the life not as an outsider, but from along the edges.  Always almost fitting in but not quite, not being able to fit into any one completely precisely because I can fit in everywhere.

Makes for a unique perspective, I think.

I was going to use the title Talk, or Just Talk before deciding instead on Talk Story.  A pidgin term from Hawaii, talk story is the exchange of stories and ideas among friends which I think better underscores the importance I feel in community.  One person alone, an unexpressed idea, are meaningless alone in a vacuum.  It is only through our connections to each other that we, or information, gain any meaning.  Through our connections we become more than the sum of the parts.

So by all means, comments are encouraged! :-D