In speaking with a friend last night, I wondered what sort of name I should give to posts that have little to do with business, or with ?talents?, or even with sites or services. More like the post titled 101 things about me, but generally more contemplative. I, the writer, was searching for a word, but the visual artist was the person who supplied it. The word was “Musings.”

This then, is a meta-muse, or a muse about musing. A musing can be defined as a calm, lengthy, intent consideration done in a reflective manner. Musings are what allow us to model the world around us and to deal with that world according to our objectives, plans, ends, and desires. They are our thoughts about the universe, its inhabitants and processes, and our place in that mix. I plan to write any number of those. Our musings are us, are our essence, disembodied.

Why are morning and evening light the best lights for painting or taking photographs? Why are relationships so complicated? Why is mortality both certain and mystifying? How many Malaysian native warriors can dance on the head of a snare drum? Why is there really air? Why do our minds play the tricks they do in a misguided attempt to protect us, when in truth that effort usually does us ill? Why are we here at all, and and why should we not resign en masse?

You know, those sort of things.

Now that I finally have my namesake site, I hardly know what to do with it. I like the look, anyway, and I suppose I have a few ideas. I think I’ll describe all of my other sites, and all of the things that I do. Goodness know they are spread from hell to breakfast now! I could do with some centralization.

Odds are, I’ll write a page describing each of the Web sites that I have, and each of those I write for, plus a page for each of the service types that I perform. Plus perhaps the synopses of the books that I have written. Since the site is named after me, it should probably be about me, rather that about other things and people, as is everything else I do.

What a novelty!