The Beginning

Did you ever pause to really think about who you are?  I'd venture that most of us don't.  I think we tend to go about our lives and not consider where we stand on issues or even waste time forming opinions in some regards. I'm sure it's partly to blame for low voter turnout in America.  It's not that we don't care.  If you sit and listen to the way people complain, the things they want from the government, what should and shouldn't be illegal...it is so starkly clear that we care.  We all care.  In fact, there are extremists who care too much. (see Westboro Baptist Church)  But let's strip it back to who we are.  Who you are.  Who are you?

It's a question I've asked myself a seemingly endless number of times.  And, not surprisingly, I've gotten different answers.  Part of that is due to current influences, emotions, career, support systems, education, etc.  We are not a finite point of imperfection.  We change.  We fail.  We learn.  We grow.  And as the years pass we become different people then we once were, some for better, some for worse.  I'd like to think that I'm still on that path of betterment and not degradation.  Time will tell.

In the process of habitually asking myself who I am, I've come to discover a few things about myself.  Some were epiphanies, some were trite.  But here's the long and short of how it panned out:

I'm a gay man living in America in what is clearly NOT our golden age.
I'm a son, a brother, an uncle and yet somehow feel as though I'm a family of one.  (More on that in future posts...)
I'm a hard worker, ambitious and driven toward the goals I've established.
I'm a lover, wholly devoted to the man I've chosen to spend this crazy messed up life with.
I'm neither Republican nor Democrat but some sort of composite of the two. (Yes, attempt to sway my important vote).
I'm a writer, who can do more with the written word than most care to enjoy or bother to recognize.
And my mission is to embrace that natural writer and tell the stories, share the ideas that are bottled up in this head of mine.  Through the journey, if you choose to share it with me, I hope to bring the world to you, the world through my eyes.  I'll try to make you think, smile, laugh, cry, and grow.  There's no plan.  There's nothing off limits.  We'll just see where this road leads...afterall, Today's Another Gay.