I Call This #1

It is time for me to do it.Time for me not just to make bad stuff, but go public with it.

With mediocre fanfare and much ado about nothing, I present to you:

Flowing Underground.

I’ve been stuck for a very long time. Stuck and hanging. Every day I ask myself – “What do I have worth sharing?”.  Every day I wait for a clear answer to this inquiry to show itself. Many thoughts and ideas come and go. Some get my attention and I follow them. Observe them. Until just as they came, they go. Ultimately everything deemed not good enough. Not important enough. Not worth sharing. Not bad or wrong. Just ordinary. Beyond smoke and mirrors of circumstance, decoration of personal narrative, and aspects hidden in shadow – there was nothing that was extraordinary.

There is a deep sense of normalcy in the midst of what many view as a life of unconventional choices and the experiences that have come with them. In expressing this to a friend a few months ago I fell on a lyric from a frequently featured song in my personal soundtrack.  In the end it is “the same as it ever was.”

That caught my attention. And so I followed.  Once In A Lifetime cued up, speakers at full volume. Dancing,singing,listening… there it was.

Under the rocks and stones, there is water underground

Letting the days go by, into the silent water

Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground

……Flowing Underground….. I love this. So much there.

My long standing, albeit sporadically utilized, blog Beneath Our Feet has served well for providing updates on our family over these past several years since we left the United States and began our lives as expats. More and more, as facebook has become my primary way of staying current with my friends and family over the world, I’ve been looking to a offer something beyond the travelogue or newsletter type update platform that I’d established there.  Time for the next thing. In my mind the progression offered in the quote has made clear what this next thing is. (sort of.)  Starting at Beneath Our Feet … going deeper… there are rocks and stones…going deeper…there is water underground. Water flowing underground.

Flowing Underground.

Welcome. I am glad you are here.  I really do not know what this space, this thing  I am calling Flowing Undeground will be.  Whatever it is, it is going to be awful and awesome. Probably more awful than not to start. I’m okay with that. You don’t have to be.  I’m okay with that too.  I see it as more than a blog in time.  What ‘more than a blog’ entails is anyone’s guess. (..and certainly not to cast aspersion on the fine art of blogging.) You may come here one day and see that it has completely exploded, transformed, or otherwise been messed with.  Expect nothing, accept anything. Don’t hold on too tightly.  Lets see where Flowing Underground takes us. Who’s with me?