About This Site:
Confessions to My Future Self is a blog that aims to be timely and mindful, to document those flashes of lucidity that come so rarely in a life: the instants of love as one encounters them, in recollection and in first exposure. In addition to semi-irregular journal entries, Confessions to My Future Self features short, self-contained stories, as well as reflections on contemporary philosophy and art. I think that we are all collectively trying to narrate and perform our own histories, and this blog is part of my attempt to define that history for myself and for whoever else may find value in it.
Events happen; facts get established…students ought to learn how to study their own pasts.
Hayden White
About The Author:
I am a recent graduate from a northeastern liberal arts college, as well as an aspiring social worker. I am passionate about existential philosophy, modern literature, and child welfare. I think that any meaningful life must have as its guiding principle an engagement with the Other; that procreation can be a trap into which the weary may fall; and that foster youth are a neglected subaltern. I believe that all beauty, art and culture lie in making something last, and that we achieve longevity through documenting ourselves and through reciprocated care. I believe that if people thought more deeply about adoption, about how an adoptive mentality could alter their relation to the world, life would be much more hospitable for all who find themselves in it.
Make kin, not babies!
Donna Haraway
Where to Start?
There’s only so much one can say about oneself and about one’s goals within two short blurbs. For a full explanation of why I think it’s important to continue to read and write in a world that’s already inundated with words, and why I think this blog may have something to say within that cacophony, please read my intro post A Cosmological Question: To Blog, Or Not To Blog? For a less dogmatic explanation of why I think adoption is relevant in today’s world, please read my short story Charles and His Family.