Pulling threads, in the sense that I use it, is the process of searching for insight indirectly, gently agitating or stimulating one's mind with seemingly unrelated details, tasks, or other projects until suddenly an insight comes into focus. This includes working at a piece of writing or other artwork in fits and starts, brainstorming, trying new approaches until something works.
Pulling Threads is a labor of love, a patchwork journal to document my intellectual forays and preserve my sanity. Selections will include essays, opinions, poetry, artwork, observations, excerpts, passages, favorite quotes, ideas, lamentations, excoriations, and possibly debates. This blog will undoubtedly evolve.
My purpose in this endeavor is to document in snapshots our strange and alarming period of history and in many cases refine and share my thoughts and opinions on life in America in what could be the latter days of Democracy (or perhaps just the latter days, period.) I do not utter such a warning lightly; I will strive to speak clearly and eschew hyperbole.
Often I may post a link, quote, story or photograph and then respond to it in short form. As such, my aim is not a research project, but rather an effort to think rationally throughout the coming chaos and the post-truth onslaught.
Some posts may be as succinct as one memorable quote that I offer for the purpose of clearly laying out an argument or opinion in the future. -BTS
We'll start with a quote from one of my favorite authors:
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
And, I almost forgot to mention humor, which will undoubtedly infuse my posts here and there.
We are well on our way now. Roads go ever on and on.
That's all. For now, onward, to what future, I do not know.
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