it's like this...

well, i am precariously and tentatively entering the blogging world...


i've called my blog "the way i see it: observations, outposts, and overtures," because i suspect a lot of my posts will be about things that catch my attention, my position on these things, and what i propose can be done with or about these things. did you catch the first part? it's the way i see it. you may see it differently, and if you do, i hope you'll share. the it in question, by the way, will be any number of topics, ranging from the biblical, to the linguistic, to the practical, to the material, to the metaphysical, to the mundane...basically, like i said, whatever catches my attention...hence my blogspot addy, my-point-o-view.blogspot.com, since i'm going to be sharing my observations, outposts, and overtures :-)


point-of-view is a wonderful thing. it allows 2 people to stand at a window, take in the outside world, process the information, and then share their experience. sometimes, as with optical illusions, 2 people looking at the image can see the same thing, yet have a different impression of the object. standing at said window, you might be looking at a tree and i might be looking at the sky. or maybe we're both looking at the tree, but what are we seeing? maybe you're seeing the possibility for a homemade swing; maybe i'm seeing a place to sit and read in the shade. as for said optical illusions, perhaps you see a man playing the saxophone, whereas i'm seeing a woman's face.


my point is that we look--we turn our eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see--but our seeing is based on where we stand, literally and dare i say it, philosophically. we see differently. we analyze differently. and i'm not just talking about the visual or the physical act of looking and seeing; i'm also talking about perception and how we apprehend the physical, the spiritual, the social, etc.--how we come to see, and know, and interpret, and be.


this blog will be an opportunity for us to encounter the world and to exchange our experience(s), because i want to know how you see it...