Welcome Back

A new season of blogging has opened for me.  It could have been the caffeine, but it was probably the Kierkegaard.  I had to find a paper topic last night and in my haste, as chance would have it, I fell upon Kierkegaard and the art of purposeful existence.  Ha! what an arrogant thing to proclaim, especially after such prolonged silence from this blog.  I do not mean that I have achieved a purposeful existence, because the idea is a state rather than achievement-and my existence continues until someone tells me differently.  I only wish to reflect more formally, and this blog (I hope) will help cultivate this habit.

One thing about WordPress that I enjoy is that I cannot continue the same blog under a different name.  I had wanted to change “Apples of Gold” but keep my old posts.  It is all too appropriate, however, that this is not an option.  The reason I wanted to retain the old posts was because my past expression is part of who I am now. Yet, I didn’t want to sound as pretentious as I was when I named this blog after Proverbs 25:11.  This pretense (which I still think was well-meaning) is a part of who I am just as it was a part of who I was.  I cannot and should not deny who I am, even if it was a younger me of whom I am occasionally embarrassed.

That being said, I do not regret the name of my blog after all, because when I named it I wasn’t stating a fact, but presenting a goal for this blog, much like I have done today.

Continuity.

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