En El Inicio...

"We talk far too much. We should talk less and draw more. I personally should like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic Nature, communicate everything I have to say in sketches. That fig tree, this little snake, the cocoon on my window sill quietly awaiting its future - all these are momentous signatures. A person able to decipher their meaning properly would soon be able to dispense with the written or the spoken word altogether. The more I think of it, there is something futile, mediocre, even (I am tempted to say) foppish about speech. By contrast, how the gravity of Nature and her silence startle you, when you stand face to face with her, undistracted, before a barren ridge or in the desolation of the ancient hills." -Goethe-

As an introductory post on a newly formed blog, the above quote is hardly fitting. So it seems it will be an on-going process of trying to reconcile my desire to talk less and listen and watch more with this foreign medium which I have now become involved. A blog seems anathema to lessening the amount of talking one does. I suppose so does signing-up for the Master's in Journalism.

I wish I could communicate everything in skectches. I'm envious of those who capture realities (or perceptions thereof) and transmit them in non-verbal ways. But you gotta use the talents you were given, and play 'til you hear the whistle, as Chris has reminded me.