oh my goodness, oh your goodness

Here we will be exploring all things Good. Good--not in the sense of agreeable or passable or satisfactory-- but "of goodness." We are interested in looking at things, usually works of art, that are created out of genuine goodness. This is not to say that all worthwhile work is born from this place. Indeed, a lot of great work, probably the most impactful, has come from places very different. We're not going to talk about those. We're talking about Good and the many forms it takes and what it spawns. This is also not to say that there is an objective Good. Oh my, no.

We will also focus on things that happen in the world that we find particularly inspiring in the way that they operate against or without regard to pre-existing models of operation. As we look around, we notice at an alarming rate well-established models starting to fail. From the record industry to non-profit arts to the two-party political structure, our conventional wisdom is disappearing. This is exciting. We want to explore things that go by their own models and use the inspiration we get from them.

There will also be an emphasis on music here. It seems as though deep listening to music and thoughtful criticism have become devalued in our culture. So we are going to explore music in hopes of engaging with those who see it as a serious art form and who not only study the music intently, but also look at it in the context of the culture at large. We may even give some thoughtful criticisms of our own. Since we are all studied art critics. For real.

So these things plus whatever else we want will be the focus here. Yes, we are interested in presenting thoughts and ideas, but we are much more excited about the discourse to hopefully come. Interested?

One last thing.
A note on operations: Because blogs are fundamentally meaningless and can have no actual, tangible effect on the world, we will make it a point to talk about the things we post before we post them, to put them into the universe in some other way than the blogosphere and to encourage connection beyond it. This will give us a chance to refine our thoughts, as well as make the posts recollections of things that have already happened, as opposed to fooling ourselves into thinking that posting on a blog is in some way beneficial to humanity.