Susan
by Susan
How does a person start describing who they are?
Since first impressions count, should I paint a portrait of myself? (Dark blonde, blue-eyed, medium everything, big feet. Doesn’t help much, does it? Um, I recently discovered the Coldwater Creek outlet, but that doesn’t tell you much either.)
Does one touch on geography? (I was born in Los Angeles, raised in Brazil, attended high school and college in Texas, spent my professional years in California. And I sure would love to live in Paris. France, not Texas.)
Or is it better to give a context of activity? (Words, music, fabric, and food are what my fingers like to play and work with. I enjoy hiking and biking whenever I can tear myself away from the computer. I write technical articles for the Java Community Process, homeschool my kids, and jot lyrics and poems on napkins and envelopes.)
Would a context of relationships make more sense? (All grandparents deceased, child of a nuclear family, wife of one, mother of two, alpha to a beagle, member of a small church family, blessed with friends.)
Perhaps it would help to spell out the underlying assumptions, values, and beliefs that shape emerging words. (Hm, I spelled out some of that in my first blog and ensuing commentary, and that stuff is often best read between the lines, anyway. Suffice it to say that I embrace change and variety, perpetually on edge to rethink tradition, either to recapture its purpose or form, reconfirm and shore up its value, or bid it a friendly adieu.)
Taking a clue from Facebook, would positioning myself within popular culture help you see the real me more easily? (I could talk for days about fav movies, music, books, artists, but tell you what: I’ll write about those things in my blog, instead.)
Who knows? I give up.
Go read Bill’s intro instead.