Small Steps

Heady stuff, that first entry.

“Just what are you trying to do here, change the world?”

Why not? I’ll admit, my resume doesn’t show much previous experience with changing worlds. I’ll also admit that sometimes changing my phone battery is more than I can deal with. Nonetheless, I got bit hard by the “DO SOMETHING!!!” bug and it’s looking like I’m not going to be able to shake it.

My first step was to start this blog. There is power in announcing intentions publicly, even if the public is completely disinterested and not even looking.

Flipping over the collective game board is obviously not something I can do by myself. I can flip the bird (or the board) to the powers that be, throw down my pieces, and exit the game, but without community I will only succeed in removing one player from the opposing team. This in itself may be a spectacle worth watching, but my real hope is for this blog to create a dialogue where we can learn from each other and encourage each other to take the steps necessary to create change.

Change is rarely a tornado that sweeps through and destroys the old ways of doing things in a terrible instant. More often it is one person taking a small step and sharing it with another who takes a small step and shares it with someone else. It is as much or more about changing ourselves and changing the way we live our own lives as it is about changing “them.”

This blog will explore some of the issues facing us as a society and look for steps we can take towards changing them. It will also explore smaller personal and ethical issues that may not seem earth shattering at first glance, but can we expect our leaders to buck the status quo if we never question it in our own lives?

With the Internet connecting us, we can collaborate and learn from each other in ways that weren’t possible a decade ago. We have all the tools and resources we need to make a difference.

Heady stuff, indeed.