Me

I'm starting to write again after a serious 9 year case of writer's block. I've been taking some writers classes at university extension and apparently, i'm reconciling my desire to write with my fear of discovering myself. Ah...so that explains it.

where i've been

So, I haven't written here in 2 months or so. A lot has happened in that little gap in my life. Sometimes, cracks in your life turn into great big gigantic fissures, but it's ok because you can fill it in with healing. I'll write here for the heck of it, so I can update those I don't have the pleasure of speaking with on a day to day or frequent basis due to time, space and circumstance. It's funny that I have this, and I have 10 half-filled journals and thought books of various shapes and sizes on my bookshelf that I never end up filling up. But oh well, expression in all its forms is a very good thing. Writing something, even if it be a fragment of a thought, is better than not writing at all and losing that thought to the fragile nature of my memory.

how exciting, I can post photos

Posing in New York '04
Originally uploaded by mgutz.

Our eventful trip to NY in 7/04 to go to the NY Asian Am Film Fest. Tad took this. As Bookie would say, it's very balanced.

my first ever post

We'll see how this goes. I had a sudden impulse to start a blog--inspired by the likes of Wil Wheaton and Zach Braff of Garden State, because I was here thinking about something I wrote when I was 16 or so. "There are things in life you share with the entire world, things you share with only a certain few, and things you must keep for yourself. " I haven't been saying much to the world, lately. I think I should.

I will refrain from random non-sense or turning this into an online diary that is better off under lock and key at the bottom of my underwear drawer. I will be conscious and purposeful. But, I will not be serious about it, beating myself up about not presenting some of the world's most prolific writing. More sincerity, less seriousness... and maybe some insight and storytellling will come from here that would not have become part of me and the world otherwise.

Lingering Thought: Be true to yourself.