Welcome and Introduction

Hi,

Welcome to my blog site.

My daughters and wife have been telling me for some time that I need a blog. I have been spouting off to them interesting information (to me) that I think is important for their continued education.  However, I generally do it by interrupting their activities and discussions with what they see as tangents, changing the course of their desires not to hear it, when I want to say it.

So, with this blog they can choose when to pay attention.  Also, it may be more clear after I have tried to clarify for myself what I am ranting about.  I hope they will read it, now and then. I hope they can learn something useful from me expressing my thoughts, frustrations, findings, opinions, ideas, conclusions, questions, observations, corrections and when I correct myself and change my mind.  My expressions may be on anything and everything interesting to my quirky thinking.  I'm curious to see where I go.

Thanks, Annie, for setting this up.

Just to start, I see things happening in this world as just fragments of information that gradually fit into puzzles with multiple pieces, dimensions, layers obscuring layers, and multiple puzzles.  For example, I realize news is just information on what people want us to hear.  Always information is left out that the source doesn't want us to know.  In addition those sources get their information in fragments from other sources with hidden agendas.  My concern is that the US media has become less and less reliable for news.  I find further that it often includes propaganda to mold our beliefs more than I ever realized.

In our busy lives it is not easy to understand "news" when it comes as a sound bite, tainted with opinion and only one liner details included.  I really enjoy looking for more details, different viewpoints, with many opinions and trying to see through propaganda.  I have come to believe much of what happens is not in our interests and is only for the interest of a few others.  My goal is to try to uncover what is kept from us--a complicated challenge, but "Fun."

I, also, have observations and beliefs that I have developed over time that may be fun to write about.

That's enough rambling to start this off?