"Gunslinger", by Edward Dorn and Beginning

Time is more fundamental than space.
It is, indeed, the most pervasive
of all the categories
in other words
theres plenty of it
And it stretches things themselves
until they blend into one,
so if you've seen one thing
you've seen them all.
- Edward Dorn

Enough time can pass to eradicate ideas. This is cliched and true. I've started three blogs in the last two years, each new idea swathed in expectations for my own time and dedication. Each bit of writing left to flail despondently as I sacked it for teaching, picking at my nails, or felt comfort in the inevitability of failure - fine. In a breath of new resolve (one many manage to exhale when the case demands it) I'll start again, hoping that, for real, time has erased earlier ideas because they weren't useful, and that the good parts of predecessors with manifest themselves into one, accidentally. Goals for this writing project are as follows:

1.) Be poetic while making a concerted effort to eliminate cheesy-ness.
2.) Write about the common links found in music, art, literature.
3.) Music, art, literature discussed will reflect what I am currently viewing, listening to, reading
4.) Academic writing should be avoided
5.) Entries should be short and pointed
6.) I will add to this list as I experiment

The first line of that Dorn quote seems awkward but feeds into a valid point - time really slaps you in the face.  And I suppose it is in the violence of the future that I wish to record something and have it thrive in the past.  Records comfort - also fine. 

So, this writing is largely for my own comfort - but I certainly wouldn't be writing something posted on the internet if I wasn't prepared for others to read it. Hopefully, eventually, there will be something here that doesn't all blend into everything else we've seen before, but something that retains enough experience to reassure.