–I. F. Stone

“I decided, if I’m going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I’m going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me.”

The quote itself suits me to a tee, so I’ll probably do a bit of navel gazing (would I be me without it?) but not exclusively. There is so much involved in finding/creating yourself or anything else that the topics are limitless.  I’ll have no problem tying it in to my history type blogging or to Human Beams stuff, if I want to, but giving myself a focus will make it easier to just sit down at the blank screen and type. None of this wandering off looking for photos or something to excite my imagination. Besides, when scuffing about for a photo to fit this theme I noticed that, according to photographers/saying-putter-0n’ers only white folks dream, find themselves or create themselves.

Which is silly, of course, because if anyone has had to create themselves – their history, their cultural markers, their family structures, literature, art, their just about everything – out of whole cloth, from nothing – it’s U.S. Black folks. So, maybe as part of the finding and creating I’ll create some graphics as well and put them out there somehow.

Anyway, that’s the plan for the month.  We’ll see.