So Much Has Happened…!

I’m not quite sure how to resume a blog that has been dormant for better than two years! So much has happened over time and I guess, maybe it’s best to approach what’s been going on with me, our community (i.e. black folks!), the Church, our City and country, post by post and hope, along the way, I pique the interest of those who find my feeble efforts at making sense of my life and its relevance in this world.

To you who have found this blog, thanks for reading it and I hope you’ve found it interesting. If you find it again, I hope you find it at least as interesting if not more and I hope you come back again and again. To any new readers I pick up I really hope you find something useful. As I’ve always said, I’m not looking for you to agree with me, I do want to make you think.

Which, I suppose is one reason why I am returning to this effort. I’ve seen the icon on my computer almost every day for almost two years and have refused to click on it for any number of reasons: fear of being wrong; tired of courting conflict; or not enough to say. But I’ve been concerned that too few people are thinking deeply enough about where we’re headed and what’s going on in our world. Not that everything I think is right, but, like many of you, I find too few people asking what I think are important questions to people who seem to be important. And it’s not even the answers to those questions that are important – it’s the questions themselves, that prove that someone with the opportunity is willing to probe and challenge. I mean questions about equity, family, faith, citizenship, human dignity, and worth and how we maintain our hope in a world that seems, to use my grandfather’s words, ‘gotten too mean and gone too far’.

So day by day, post by post, I intend to raise those questions, over a cup of coffee with you, as we talk about what has been happening and what is happening.

There’s another reason why I’m returning to my blog. It’s something my friend, the late Jeffery Weiss told me a long time ago. Something I’ve never forgotten…

“Writers write!”