Mazel Tov!

Welcome to the inaugural entry in the Three Realms Healing blog!

Thanks to the sage advice of my good friend and site fan Kim, I've decided to venture into yet one more realm that I said I'd never enter - blogging.

I've resisted blogging in the past because I felt (and still feel) that there are far too many blogs out there containing far to many insipid facts about the unimportant lives of way too many "robustly entitled" bloggers. I mean, really - considering the general shape that our world is in today, do we really need to barrage the internet with billions of bytes about teen adventures at the shopping mall or, for that matter, adult adventures in fly fishing? Until recently, I regarded blogs with the thinly veiled contempt that I used to reserve for my parents' vacation movies. (Yes, that's right folks - I said "movies." I'm talking hand-cranked, developed-at-the-drug-store, grainy strips of 8mm celluloid that my dad used to run on a clattering old projector that should have done a better job of burning the damn things up... But, um, I digress...)

Anyway, I cruised along for many a year in my comfortable contempt, until a couple of things happened. Most important, I think, as I indicated above, was Kim's suggestion that I blog, not only to bring attention (hopefully!) to Three Realms, but also in the (admittedly unlikely) chance that my words might actually be of use to someone "out there."

My other reason for coming 'round to "the blog-side", as it were, was my own experience of this last concept: in the past year, finding, learning and implementing new technologies in my work as a software developer, I have been enlightened, helped and - on more than one occasion - had my butt saved by information that I have found in blogs. Many developers, from the near-legendary to the neophytic, have chosen to share their knowledge, experience and insights regarding various software concepts, techniques and technologies in their blogs, and I have reaped the benefit of this generosity.

So, on the off-chance that my "experience, strength and hope" in certain areas may be of equal benefit to some seeker out there, I'm going to give blogging a shot.

In the end, it may only result in an infinitesimal increase in the overall "insipidity index"...but then, who really knows?