Country Road

In the new information, cultural and technological universe, what,

I sometimes wonder, is the writer’s purpose? It has changed, and yet it hasn’t.

I can only speak for myself, but this is as far as I have gotten.

To think beyond the printed word, and into the realm of images, to follow the words and ideas

of the ether as well as the page.

To change with ideas, and grow with them, rather than to cling to them blindly.

To provoke.

To make people happy.

To make people uncomfortable.

To inspire.

To challenge lies.

To uplift.

To seek out common experience and capture it.

To make sense of the light and images of the world.

To fight for love and compassion.

To seek a moral place.

To see past cheap and easy labels.

To see beyond the power of money and false notions of security

into the human spirit.

To be fulfilled. And to support and encourage

others who seek to be fulfilled.

To be open. To die when the body goes,

not when the frightened

mind retreats into the old days and the old ways.