PandaBaby is True Fiction.

Welcome to my Pandababy Blog. A panda bear is an unlikely animal - a bear that eats bamboo - a contradiction in every aspect. This blog is true fiction, also a contradiction in its essence. Yet both are real, both exist - the bear and the blog. Both can only be described by contradictory terms, such as true fiction. Please be pleased to enjoy these stories of our ancestors. They are True Fiction. Every person in my blog lived in the time and place indicated. They are my ancestors and relatives, and their friends.

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Why Blog?

"To create one's own world, in any of the arts, takes courage." Georgia O'Keeffe .

I blog to challenge myself: to put my ideas and actions out in the public and see how they hold up (or not). I blog to challenge others to take up a book, a cause or an idea they might not have considered yet. I blog to know myself better and to know others too.

I blog to give and to receive - to discover new friends and to update old friends, to begin conversations with people I've met (and many I've met only 'online') and with people I have yet to meet. I blog to share my life in ways which could not otherwise happen since my handicaps keep me at home in solitude most of the time. I blog for joy, and sometimes for sadness.

My blog is my sidewalk and these pixels are my chalk, setting my messages in front of passers-by, strangers and family, people from my neighborhood - a place as big as the whole world. I blog for the hope that people are essentially good and kind and that to participate in this rising world consciousness called the Internet is to be part of something wonderful.