A few years ago, I discovered what for me has become a supreme antidote to a lifetime of suffering from writer's block:  the internet message board.  I'm registered on several, have developed what I feel are fictional characters in ongoing dramas, where I and a rag tag group of rebel friends battle the all too human forces of ever-control encroaching upon the world in the form of a world dominating system disguised by an innocuous, though ultimately Orwellian term we know as "civilization." In all of those boards,  I find an integral thread of character evolving through challenges in ways  that parallel what I feel moves me personally to strive towards those  rén characteristics  my name implies, all in the faces of diabolical challenges that would see me behaving in civilized ways, were I not so bent on being an authentic human being. 

What's happening for me now is an evolution of writing from that engagement that continues to unfold with many surprises, much to my delight. 

My first branching off from the message boards to collect some of these surprises, was to create a simple website which I used, as I put it, "as an adjunct to my message board activities." I'd recognized, with the suggestion of friends, that in the daily flow of thoughts I'd publish in discussions on the boards, I had some less transient themes that could be developed off the board.  From that I now have a blog -- An Assembler's Blog -- where I somewhat randomly "assemble" thoughts, sometimes intact, sometimes expanded, in essay form from the board.  This work is beginning to form thematically towards something that has the ingredients of at least one book.  I see this as a key artistic process that I've been missing in all my efforts to fully integrate my writing with my life, despite all the writing I've done, some of it quite lengthy as professional writing of a research and planning nature. 

So I don't know quite what that means, yet, if I ever will, but I would like to dedicate this to the artist in all of us that is always looking for forms of expression.  I feel strongly that we all have a potential, yet many of us remain estranged from it throughout our lives, for reasons that may never be known.  This site is my effort to begin to be more integrative in my own next phase of gathering, and I will welcome responses to anything I create, because I've discovered how very important an interaction is in my own process through life.

Welcome, and as some of my friends like to say, Namasté!