On Blogging...

Writing a blog is a bit like planning a set of music: you start with something good, something up-tempo; something that gets the crowd's interest and promises more. Then you - well, that's the topic of another day's writing.

What follows ("Genesis") shouldn't come on the heels of "O.C.D." Today I sat down to write a humorous bit about the bank robbery, but neighborhood events brought a black curtain down on my intentions, and so you (the other reader of my blog) are faced with two pretty somber tunes - one right on the heels of the other. It's a sequence that wouldn't make for a good concert, and it probably doesn't make for a good blog, but sometimes it's the way things go.

In writing "Genesis" I never considered that it's subject matter relates to "O.C.D.," but I think there is a striking and frightening relationship between the two. How fine is the line that distinguishes deviant self-destructive behavior that harms "self" only from deviant destructive behavior that harms others?