backwardtrain

At first, I named the blog “backwardtrain,”  based on the following sentiment,  which I jotted down during a train ride, unsurprisingly:

There’s something about riding a train with your back to the engine—a metaphor for life, that we’re hurtling into the unknowable distance, seeing only what lies in the past.  All we can do is trust the Conductor (if, in fact, we’ve picked the right train).

About an hour after christening the blog “backwardtrain,” I thought up “a cup of kimitea,” which I felt better fit the eclectic mix that I had planned for the blog.  Preferable to basing the whole blog on a single sentiment that I might love less in the future.

Plus, backwardtrain minus the first letter is approximately equivalent to awkwardtrain.  Awkward.

Welcome! Enjoy a cup of kimitea.

Welcome to the blog!

What can you expect in the mix?

• Poetry!
  I carry around a little black book in which I write poetry, often during train rides or late at night.  And after much internal debate between my artistic inferiority complex and my hunger for attention, I will concede to letting some of it be read.  At least half of it, if not all of it, is absolutely horrid, so only what I deem worthy will filter through revision processes from page to screen.
• Music
  In what I hope will be a weekly feature, #Tunesday, I will post songs from the ever-changing soundtrack of my life: new discoveries, old favorites, obscure artists, chart-topping singles.
• Thoughts…
  On living in the light of the Gospel, social justice, societal trends, pop culture…anything, really.
  In the form of a short “Thought of the Day” blurb or a longer commentary.

All in all, a great brew.  Drink up!