The First Blog of the Future

I have to begin this blog by saying that the word blog may perhaps be my least favorite word-especially for anything related to creativity, imagination or anything of any aesthetic value. Perhaps that shouldn't be the first line of my new BLOG, but there it is.

The Future We Follow began as a podcast, and it may become one again. For now though, it will be a place where I share some thoughts on the future, thoughts on the present and thoughts on the ever merging streams which form the confluence of memory, now and that which is yet to manifest.

Speaking of time, I have been in a slow moving, dark pool of molasses since mid January, with my attention continually drawn to and co-opted by the daily news relating the confounding and disorienting twists and turns of the political landscape. I am caught in a mire of disbelief which is really only rivaled by the delusions of grandeur and messianic complex of my early and mid twenties. Not since then have I experienced such a chasm between my perception of reality and that which was purported by the media and furthered by the general populace. The differences in my state of mind-particularly the sobriety of my present lifestyle and relative sobriety of my present worldview-make this fantastic parade of social upheaval simultaneously dizzying and joyfully thrilling. I am stimulated daily with the knowing that I have the capacity to exist in a wholly distinct paradigm of consciousness, of attention, of intention from nearly half of my contemporaries and cohorts in this social experiment. Sad, truly, a bit. But there is a comfort in knowing that the future is being painted by many artists and can be viewed from many angles and is guided by many angels.