First!

This is my first post to a blog.  I used to use LiveJournal a while back but I really want to separate myself from that, simply because I was a lot more naive then.  I'm sure that I still am but I'd like to think not as much.

This is the note that I would like to start this blog on.  As most people who do puzzles know, it's easiest to begin with the corner piece so that's what I've named this blog.  I want to start piecing together my puzzle and this is a good as any spot to start.  I don't have all the answers and I would like to think that I will never have them.  I would like to think that I will always see my puzzle as being incomplete.  However, that doesn't give me the right to not at least try to start putting the pieces together.  It would simply be lazy of me to think that since my puzzle will never truly be finished, that I shouldn't start it at all.  On the contrary, if I want anything to be meaningful, I must begin.

Why am I here?  Not specifically the grand scheme "Why am I here?" but why am I writing a blog about it?  Because there's a few things that I have learned that will make it evident that I need to do this.  At least, I think I have learned them.

1. If I do charge myself with putting the pieces together, I need to figure out what pieces go where and, honestly, a lot of times, I try to fit the wrong pieces into the wrong places.  I need a forum to get other people's opinion on where I'm going wrong and where I'm going right.
2. Others need to know.  I don't assume that what I have to say is fundamentally true and it is possible that it can change over time but other people need to know what I think.  I am not expert but, contrary to popular belief, I don't think they're the only ones who can deal with the problems and questions I have.  At some point, they weren't experts and eventually became them.  In short, help me to help you think about these things.
3. I do this for posterity sake.  I am just a man.  I cannot remember everything, as much as my wife would love it.  I cannot live forever, as much as I would love it.  I don't expect to memorialized but I would like to live on in the lives that I touch.

This is why I'm doing this blog. I hope someone out there is affected for the better because of it.