Why

Dear Everybody,

I am creating this blog to become better at keeping in touch.
I have always done especially poorly at calling or writing or otherwise reaching out to people whom I love with a frequency which adequately reflects just how much I do miss them and how much I do love them.
By writing this blog, I hope to share more of my life, in its organic narrative form, more fully and more frequently with you, the ones I love but with whom I cannot be present.
The fact that I cannot be with you now does not mean that I have forgotten you or that I have abandoned gratitude for your gifts to me.
Neither does my writing this blog suggest that my life is in anyway newsworthy or noteworthy.
I fully recognize that your reading this blog represents something of 'wasted time.'
Reading this is not going to show up on any resume; it won't carry any credit toward continued education; I am not a recognized authority on anything. 
I just want to hang out with you, my friends who are far away, and 'waste time,' because that's what friends do. I think that's what love is.

At any rate, I offer this blog as a new attempt at being present to you and reminding you that you who have walked with me are always present to me.
I hope to chart the waves and ripples ahead of me, beginning with the first stages of seminary-discernment of my vocation.
I'll try to make it interesting, not by fabricating or exaggerating, but by keeping things either short or sweet or sometimes both.
Until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand.