Welcome to my blog where I am going to start to post some thoughts and reactions to ideas that I encounter while reading, listening, and looking at all sorts of things around me. Since I have way too many books on my bookshelves, mostly I will use this as a way to reflect on books I have read so that I can keep my thoughts here and then set the books free to be read by others. I confess, I have a bad habit of loving books so much that I want to keep them on my shelves because seeing them there reminds me of the ideas they inspired in me. It may be an image, a paragraph, or the entire book that got me to think in a new way and so I want to keep the physical book as a way to remember that inspiration. But I realized that this is a selfish way to keep a library, since no one else can be inspired by these great ideas if they are just sitting on my shelf gathering dust. Also, if I am being honest, I am a little afraid of being buried alive by my own books. So this is my start at a “catch and release” form of reading, where I will capture my thoughts in the moments after I finish reading and then pass the actual books on to others to enjoy. I also expect to sometimes include thoughts about other ideas I encounter, as the inspiration hits me. I hope that if you have found this and like what you read you will share your thoughts on these cool things too.
