getting started

this is it. a place to record various observations, random thoughts, and fleeting sensations--and, perhaps, begin to turn them into real ideas.

this is, of course, something i am supposed to be doing all the time. usually, however, i just manage to scribble in various notebooks, on napkins or other scraps of paper--things that get lost and rarely go anywhere. the point here is to be more regular and systematic--in a word, workmanlike. (thus, the oil can descriptor).

been thinking about this for a while. a list of items i've written down over the past few weeks and months, in fact, that'll likely be the basis of some early posts. but the first one i want to write up tomorrow will be on the power of sport in contemporary American society, inspired by a family viewing of the movie field of dreams this evening. we'll reconvene then.