Blog for what
Welcome to my blog. I intend to make bloggerspot my homepage along with a variety of topics (a la halo-halo, miksla-miksla) of common interest -- natural scenery, current events, news commentary, somebody else's blog, lifestyle, culture, greening the earth, music 'n arts, pets, faces, huh, whaatavyo (the universe is big!) -- though in small bets for kicks. I also intend to post my old. written news and articles, published or unpublished, edited or unedited, to further whet our appetite and curiosity about this daily business called life. Or for personal reasons... my own pleasure.
Writing is a craft. But more than that writing must be purposive. Writers write for some ends. Some use writing as a way to better communicate with other people, to state and examine one's own value system (and those of others' as well), one's mode of living, to criticize and offer alternatives, and to put one's loftiest vision into "practical words." Praxis, that is, word with action -- "embodied spirit" -- will change the world, our conditions in life (i.e., social, economic, ideological, political). Writers cannot escape from dealing with contradictions, life's drama. And, for creative writers, life's drama becomes more colorful and interesting if it is intensified and brought to a higher level, to the point of no return, so to speak, for deeper meaning and correct understanding. Certainly, many would find writing refreshing; refreshing because it heals the soul in anguish or it forces the writer to place reality in front of him or her. No more pretensions. Of course one can get affected mentally and emotionally. One can go crazy when confronting his/her idea, examining it, before putting it into writing. I can get philosophical at times. Or feel unsure of what word to use, or fear of words, like the untractable, long word hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. Reality is truthful. It cannot lie; we sometimes do ignore it. For example, the many faces (and forces) of lack (privation/poverty) in our society that are unfolding right before our eyes are daunting, if not intimidating. Writing helps one to put things in their proper perspective for better understanding.
Or, look at writing as a magical sorter, re-arranger, or siever of sort. Writing makes you think and feel real. It clarifies your thoughts, helping you identify truth from falsehood, the essentials from non-essentials; it leads one to a clearer, not the edited or photoshopped, view of the reality -- self, people, events, the neighborhood, the universe. Conscious or otherwise, we breathe reality every moment of our life. Life's problems and issues are hard to ignore. Reality is painful; it is incorrigible at times. Not spick-and-span either. Far from the romantic promises of "living in a bed of roses." I guess, only the oxymoron would find pleasure in such a consistent equivocation. In writing, wala ng plastikan. Writing makes one more human. To be human (just, compassionate, peace-maker, critical, maka-bayan) is a virtue. But more than this writing should come as a commitment. And for that reason, you must sustain it. (With a dash of humor or idiosyncrasy, (that I can assure you, you can sustain writing for a thousand moons on a thousand rivers.) Writing is meant to accomplish certain goals, some reasons, however simple they may seem, for one cannot proceed with it without it. And mine here at at Neiltz Zone (Notepad) is simple: to take note and share some moment of import. To write to right, or to right to write? (What the heck?) Change is interesting.
Writing is a craft. But more than that writing must be purposive. Writers write for some ends. Some use writing as a way to better communicate with other people, to state and examine one's own value system (and those of others' as well), one's mode of living, to criticize and offer alternatives, and to put one's loftiest vision into "practical words." Praxis, that is, word with action -- "embodied spirit" -- will change the world, our conditions in life (i.e., social, economic, ideological, political). Writers cannot escape from dealing with contradictions, life's drama. And, for creative writers, life's drama becomes more colorful and interesting if it is intensified and brought to a higher level, to the point of no return, so to speak, for deeper meaning and correct understanding. Certainly, many would find writing refreshing; refreshing because it heals the soul in anguish or it forces the writer to place reality in front of him or her. No more pretensions. Of course one can get affected mentally and emotionally. One can go crazy when confronting his/her idea, examining it, before putting it into writing. I can get philosophical at times. Or feel unsure of what word to use, or fear of words, like the untractable, long word hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. Reality is truthful. It cannot lie; we sometimes do ignore it. For example, the many faces (and forces) of lack (privation/poverty) in our society that are unfolding right before our eyes are daunting, if not intimidating. Writing helps one to put things in their proper perspective for better understanding.
Or, look at writing as a magical sorter, re-arranger, or siever of sort. Writing makes you think and feel real. It clarifies your thoughts, helping you identify truth from falsehood, the essentials from non-essentials; it leads one to a clearer, not the edited or photoshopped, view of the reality -- self, people, events, the neighborhood, the universe. Conscious or otherwise, we breathe reality every moment of our life. Life's problems and issues are hard to ignore. Reality is painful; it is incorrigible at times. Not spick-and-span either. Far from the romantic promises of "living in a bed of roses." I guess, only the oxymoron would find pleasure in such a consistent equivocation. In writing, wala ng plastikan. Writing makes one more human. To be human (just, compassionate, peace-maker, critical, maka-bayan) is a virtue. But more than this writing should come as a commitment. And for that reason, you must sustain it. (With a dash of humor or idiosyncrasy, (that I can assure you, you can sustain writing for a thousand moons on a thousand rivers.) Writing is meant to accomplish certain goals, some reasons, however simple they may seem, for one cannot proceed with it without it. And mine here at at Neiltz Zone (Notepad) is simple: to take note and share some moment of import. To write to right, or to right to write? (What the heck?) Change is interesting.
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