Beginnings

And so begins my journal. My goal with this here little diddy is to recreate some of the magic that writing – provided for me in my earlier days - specifically in college. At the University of Georgia, Professor Nathan Kohn instructed all of his Creative Writing for Electronic Media students to do journal entries every day, as this would serve as good practice for getting your creative mind going and your writing pen flowing. I can’t say that this tactic worked in college because I was always too busy with other stuff. So I just fabricated my journal entries at the end of each week and turned those into the professor. The experiment failed, I guess, but the truth - the practice of it - lives on. I see how this journal can help me. And I hope it does.

I'm going to be posting some poems and writings every so often. I hope you enjoy these compositions. They are my mind on paper - my thoughts and feelings as the mood struck me to chronicle them.

The first one I post reveals the reason for the name of this blog.



Random Thoughts

Guard against these treacherous predators of the night
For the mind is a wicked creature
Not content to simply take in the reflective stare of the lazy eyes
No, it is hell-bent on opening shut doors
To realms we have since left
And ones in which we have yet to venture