a shift in perspectives

until i come up with a better title, this will have to do.

initially a stab at potential architecture readers, i've decided to expand my blog to include whatever comes to mind and drives my passions. it is ridiculous to assume that only one thing, one character, one idea, can consume us and motivate us. like kahn once said, we are all victims of circumstance. i presume to take it further: what drives us to push forward and excel, to want to stand out, to produce, is circumspect to what we love. as i could not decide which passion to focus my blog on, i feel it only fair to let what is motivating me at the moment characterize my postings. who knows? perhaps it will be Architecture most of the time; or perhaps not. i am a proud claimant to this great city of New York and as such, i must confess my polyfaceted-ness... is that even a word? who knows! what i'm trying to say here is that living in this great city exposes you to so many different ideas, passions, arts, people, and other unnamed wonders that you simply cannot love only one thing about it. slowly, that creeps into your whole system. at least with me it did, and it manifested itself in a variety of passions. and so, my blog will strive to be a reflection of these.

in an attempt to do all my loves justice i will write about all of them... eventually. like my children, i shall pay them each loving attention, but only as much as each necessitates at any given moment... or at my personal whim (not like children... the analogy ends here)! i apologize to myself, to my poor little blog, and to phantom readers out there since i have been quite reluctant to switch from analog to digital and have quite neglected this little piece of web that i own. i much prefer the romanticized notion of writing in a journal all of one's thoughts, ideas, accomplishments and failures, preferably in a wonderful ink fountain pen. but, to be absolutely truthful, even my love for leather-bound journals hasn't been enough to provoke consistency in my entries. blogging, however, imposes a sort of responsibility to the public, and so i feel i might be more diligent in putting my thoughts onto paper... or computer... or 0's and 1's... whatever this is.

so begins a new era for me and my blog. i think i'm also hoping this will help unglue me from television as i would place it below my responsibilities but above my guilty pleasures. let's see what comes of it.