So, what about it Soolay Bruthah?

Why don't we collaborate on this thing. Your saying it's hopeless is no more or less true than it was say in the late 60's or early 70's. Remember those fabulous times? There was all them movements and the/we Baby Boomers were well into our perpetual adolescences and I know I for one of them had more or less rationally decided that opposing them was to iffy and scary and I would rather just seek my seperate peace: you know: either land in Australia or the Great American West or just outside La Honda or Half Moon Bay (back when us locals were just body surfing or boogie boarding Mavericks and had enough sense to keep it on the QT)
Anyway, my point is this: if not us-who... and if not now, well shoot we could end up waiting tables or substitute teaching and day laboring in our 50's. Hell, I'd rather go back to being not just a gambler but a professional gambler. I'm sure my card counting skills are not all that eroded. And I definitely have a feel for the machines. Know what I'm saying?

Overview Introduction

First of all this blog is an attempt to communicate with and recruit some of my best and lifelong friends to become actively engaged in a conversation about all the things and issues I been studyin' on lo these many moons, years, and gosh: decades now- regarding our culture, society, and politics... aka "Our Democracy" such as it is here in the good old US of A right here right now circa late April already 2007. From these initial and somewhat personal communications I hope this effort evolves and grows into something of a community, discussion, advocacy and organizing blog calling on not only my currently quite miniscule "small circle of friends" but Americans in general who agree with much of the gist of what is proposed and suggested here (and elsewhere around the Web, world, and nation)- to build an "Evolutionary Progressive Grassroots Transformational Democracy Solidarity" (EPGTDS) movement in the United States that advocates greater economic, social, and political Democracy at all levels throughout our country and society.

Just wading in and flailing away from this point...

Basically there is no point to hesitating or qualifying any further. One of the key points as I see it to the ultimate potential of blogging is it's simple and emergent nature. So, this effort and ongoing experiment is for me a combination "pro Democracy in America" progressive Democracy advocacy blog and forum as well as the beginning of an ongoing presentation of some of my lifelong work as a somewhat repressed and thus ready to explode wannabe essayist/writer naturalist- poet philosopher and itinerent adventuror explorer.

Actually been trying to blog awhile...

...I just didn't know it. Back when I first was leaving my Luddite ways (somewhat) and learning to play a little with the computer and learning to type and what not and getting mentored techno-gyzmically by Tim. But it all lead back to here:
Well, predictably enough in my case the work the work the working life has taken a toll on all the other notions of living and creativity and so forth. I am just surviving the days- which can be numbing. Yeah, they aren’t so bad for getting a paycheck, as work days go… but there is a definite down side. Blogging and the new Web Presence is the new plan but I just can’t get any traction. I need to just put a lot of time in getting to a starting or jumping off point and then I don’t think it will be so bad.
But I am not there yet…
More soon enough maybe. Gotta get my mind right about something from here. Whatever.

Getting Started For Real Now...

So this is Ariel and this is Courier and this must be Georgia and I see Lucida Grande and this is my somewhat old standard Times though not quite the exact deelybop I always chose in my more serious writing stages and now It's Trebuchet which I kind of like but we'll see and Verdana is O.K. but pretty blah (though I know I'd choose it if it were only Ventana as in the B.S. Wilderness and Big Fires fame... but it ain't and now it's none other than WebdingsI guess WebDings ain't a fer real Font in the traditional sense of the term. This one is just Blogger's default font and now it's time to decide. O.K., I have decided to go with Vendana for old NoCal memories sake and move on to more posting soon- like later today.

Sittin', drinkin', superficially thinkin...

Yo yo yo just checking out the new template and trying to get my mind right to move forward with what I am euphemistically still referring to as "my work".

Well, slogging along still and discovering a littlel more about this here Blogger and its capabilities- which is resulting in progress being made and a new look to this dialog democracy blog. Pretty soon now I will be finally at the meat and potatoes stage of what I will be doing here and look forward to that point.

Let's see what this looks like without using the Title or Link fields in the Post page.

Just trying to post with my new html edits to my template to see where the link made using the link entry on this Posting page winds up.

Also seeing how doing a double line break looks.

So with a certain amount of ominous shyness I begin, or restart perhaps is more accurate, my blogging efforts as they relate to the potential for the blogosphere (sic?) specifically or narrowly and the Internet generally (but especially this "newish" phase of the Net hyped as the Web 2.0 with all it's community and connectivity possibility and promise) to contribute on a meaningful level to the cause of revitalizing in a progressive and profound manner "our Democracy" in this here country of ours: the good old US of A.
The link here and above to www.dialogdemocracy.org is to a companion organizing and advocacy Web Site that will have, in some cases, somewhat lengthier material related to what's posted here and also present a more comprehensive package of what I am talking about when I talk about "BIG D" Democracy and some proposals and suggestions about how we might, as a progressive community and force in this country's political life, organize and work towards getting us to move in that direction.
Meantime, the blogging here and the Web Site there are a work in progress. So I just say come on with it then... Farward and faiyaka... Minnotuh- and den gosaka...