Welcome to me

Just trying it out. But I guess everyone says that the first time. And I'm at work, so I shouldn't even be writing this. Or this. Or this for that matter.

Ah, it's just getting worse.

I plan to write about how such a f**ked up world can still be so much more beautiful than most people recognise. That's nice. I like that.

Years ago our local cinema was showing a double feature: 'The Green Mile' followed by 'American Beauty'. At the time the message of the former seemed to be that the world was inherently evil, and there's nothing we can do about it. The latter seemed to insist that if we just look past the trivial irritations of our lives, we will see a beautiful world. As Ricky puts it: "And that's the day I knew there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force, that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever... Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in."

In these time when everyone's afraid of terrorism, our countries' responses to terrorism, climate change, Peak Oil, more reality TV, Serenity not doing well at the boxoffice, and whatever else, I tend to take comfort in the latter view.