About This Blog

Banvit 2008

My beautiful wife, Erin, began blogging about three years ago.  At the time, I didn’t think it was a very good idea.  In fact, I must confess that I told her then that I was not a very big fan of the ‘blog scene.’  She wisely disregarded my anti-blog inclinations and I, in turn, soon wisely forsook them.  Not only that, but I went on to become an even greater blog fanatic myself, even going so far as to start about 10 myself.

Of course, I didn’t keep up with them all.  Indeed, a few of them only achieved a title and the basic, boring, ugly blue Wordpress theme that comes with the download.  But I did start them all (and maybe a few more come to think of it).  And the reason (I realize now) I did so is because I was trying to create various contexts for my thoughts.  I was trying to organize my thinking through various blogs.  Trying to give myself specific outlets for whatever random thoughts entered into my over-active brain. Theological thoughts went one place.  Basketball thoughts went another.  Family thoughts still another.  And on down the list.

I suppose it was like having 10 journals rather than 1.  You can imagine the end result:  a few blogs rose to the top while the rest slowly disappeared.  Then the ones that remained could not contain the various aspects of life I wanted to address, so that I ended up stepping away from blogging altogether in order to focus my blogging energies for the good of my own mind and, I hope, the good of others as well.

That being said, it should be obvious that this blog is meant to be the ‘all in one’ blog for me, Joe Crispin.  It is supposed to serve as an outlet for my many and diverse thoughts.  In a word:  it is meant to be an extension of me.

Of course, this is not to say that I won’t have my specialties.  No doubt this blog will have certain categories that far outweigh the others in both depth of insight and number of posts.  But the point here is that I will not be constrained by a particular blogging focus.  I will just be myself, blog what comes, and see if anyone out there wants to join in.  I think it will be fun, but then again, I might be the only one (actually, I know my wife and good friend Kevin will join in, and maybe my Mom).

Here’s a little taste of topics that have recently entered my mind as blog-worthy material.

God, family, basketball, sports psychology, green grass, Macs, the New Earth, traffic patterns, coaching philosophies, beards, cold-water immersion for recovery, spending habits, iPhones, architecture, organization, the gospel, Gaza, nature vs. nurture, natural disasters, Earth Day, fresh sneakers, community, diligence, fear, iPhones (yea, I really want to buy one), chick-flicks, Dora the Explorer (or is it Explora?), freedom, the NBA playoffs, a theology of time, the Kindle, mini-vans, bamboo…and I am just getting started.

It’s a diverse list, but from my perspective, that is what makes the prospect of such blogging fun, for both me and, I hope, you.  So join in.  Give me a read.  And don’t be shy about telling me what you think.  I’ll do my best to dialogue in return in the hope that we all might be encouraged and entertained.