Oddities and Odysseys

Hmm… where to start?

The Mind Bar­na­cle has been an idea that has gnawed at me for YEARS now. At this point it’s laugh­ing at me. I’m the kid who just got “pantsed” in the locker room. And the idea is the mid­dle school mis­fit that is point­ing directly at my unmentionables.

The name orig­i­nated from a close friend of mine. I was try­ing to describe this con­cept I had for site that would allow me to explore reoc­cur­ring ideas. The kind of ideas that nag at you and won’t go away until they get the atten­tion they need. My inabil­ity to give these ideas life or the time they required to process them down into some­thing that could be eas­ily swal­lowed has plagued me for longer than I can remem­ber. “How about the mind bar­na­cle?” he said matter-of-factly. I instantly loved it.

I imag­ined an old ship cov­ered with an unimag­in­able amount of bar­na­cles. It’s perfect. It speaks to my want to ven­ture out into uncharted ter­ri­tory. A poorly crafted ship built by some­one who has no knowl­edge of ship build­ing, but with the wish to explore. It res­onates with my strug­gle with com­pla­cency and pro­cras­ti­na­tion. The only way that I will ever begin to chal­lenge myself with “deep water thoughts” is to begin the process of scrap­ping the hull of these things and gain­ing expe­ri­ence by being in the process.

I’m not going to sit here and say that any of these ideas are good. Most of them are grand ideas about hav­ing grand ideas.

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They whole point of start­ing this site is for the explo­ration. To be in the process of explo­ration. I just want to get into my boat and head into open waters. Why not?