Melding the personal and the political...

...trying to approach the two and "the writin'" in a way that doesn't ring falsely or become too self absorbed on either count. It has been a long time that i have wanted to do the reconecting with many many old friends. Always a little daunting and scary. Or it can be. Well this whole Blog and Web 4.0 shit I am going to be experimenting with just has to be done at some point. Waded into.
Ah well. Here's to at least regular posting and re-upping the level of investment in personal time and treasure into what I still sometimes refer to as "my work".
It is a year before the `08 Presidential Election. Commenting on that to a point will allow ample segue-ing into the political side of what my writing is directed at, The dialogD stuff and advocacy and beseeching...
The personal sometimes does overlap that but often not on the surface. Most people are just so apolitically turned off. But that has largely been a function of just bding so turned off to the reality of mainstream politics and the frustration of even conceiving of changing things and or making a difference. But largely it is even more a function of many of us opposed to politics and business as usual being able to a afford to, on a personal and economic level, simply turn off to and wash our hands of the whole unpleasant disgustingness of it all. I don't think we really ever could afford to do that and abdicate our responsibility for what is done supposedly for our collective benefit- but since 911 and this 8 year Neocon Debacle of an Administration I don't think there is any doubt that now is the time to come up with something different- "Something completely different..." as far as a different kind of path into our societal, cultural, political, and economic future.