Day 1. Sometimes you just gotta lower your standards

Well here I am again, starting over.

I have a feeling it would do me good to be writing, because it has always done me good to be writing, and a blog seems the natural place for that these days.

This particular blog, A Stranger Here, has been in existence for years, but mostly dormant.

I think maybe that's going to change though. You see, I have a plan!

It's a simple plan. It's the classic plan for all journalers. It involves the wholesale lowering of standards. Forget about trying to be useful. Stop wondering why you should write, or who's gonna care, and just say something.

The idea, see, is to establish a habit. It's a good habit to have, I've found. It's good for your thinker (that big muscle behind your eyes).

So here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to post something here for thirty days running, thirty in a row. The whole idea is simply to establish the pattern in my day, to carve out a few minutes (or more than a few) for putting some words together. No standards. No expectations. No particular mission except to renew an old but long dormant habit.

Snf I'm not going to tell anyone about it, not at first anyway. I'm not going to share the posts on Facebook. The reason being, it's an experiment. After 30 days, if I'm going strong and enjoying the process, if the habit really is established and I feel the posts are at least minimally interesting (lowered standards, but not NO standards), then maybe I'll let others know about it.

I'll be writing about books, music, faith, politics, Jesus, walking, the culture, a little armchair philosophizing, whatever seems fertile ground on a given morning.

Day 1.