Introduction by LoneTree

to say that this introduction is a work in progress would imply that, well, that at some time in the future it will be complete. As I doubt it will ever be1 on grounds that what is deemed important and relevant changes on a daily basis, making it rather hard to pick out those pertinent things that should be mentioned in an introduction.
so bear with me - I'm getting there...

not that anyone would bother to check back later, I know I wouldn't.

This is such a, you know, a one shot deal, this introduction, this - 'hello, my name is...' and so sterilized into prescribed dramas, its just too easy to switch into autopilot and not say anything in the first 20 minutes of a conversation, and sometime not even in the whole conversation....
but presuming you have gotten this far, perhaps its worth carrying on a little further, as it seems that maybe, just maybe, a real connection is starting to have a smidgen of a chance of daring to have the audacity to form - and after all, isn't that what most conversations are about - figuring the connection between the participants?

I guess I'll go first, as after all you are the one reading this, and I am the one writing it. So here we run headlong into the first problem - what on earth would you want to know about me that might even remotely interest you. In this digital age with the emails, chat-rooms, even this h2g2, my actual name is even pretty irrelevant, given what you have already gleaned from the preceding ramblings2. Perhaps I should leave it as an exercise for the reader to figure out the person behind this digital entity. So putting that aside, what else would pique the interest of the casual passer-through?
I'll go out on a limb here, and disclose some things that have a permanent impact on my life, and therefore on who I am, how I react and what I am restrained by.

I have children.
I live in the northwest of the U.S.A
I make a living tinkering with computers of the embedded variety3 as a consultant, at large.
I am a keen photographer
I believe that god is among us, and we are all divine.
There is no coincidence.4

So lets explore this connection that is nebulously hovering at the very edge of existence - first order of business is to decide, well, do we actually want carry forward from this point, actually call it into being? After all, that requires work and commitment, and the lord knows that that's something that we put into the 'rather not' category, at least until we know a lot more about what on Earth it is we are getting into.

Rather then rambling on here, and using more of your time, well, how about it, should we call into being that fragile and potentially time consuming and effort demanding connection? I know it will be worth while and rewarding, transforming for us both, a possibility hovering at the very edge of existence. I leave it up to you...

1Well, one can presume that some time after my demise it would be safe to put the final touches to the introduction. I suppose it would be called a eulogy, tho'2I mean of course, my chosen nickname loneTree3If this is getting too technical, I apologize, but sometimes its just unavoidable to let some jargon creep in.4I know, there is, by definition, such a thing as coincidence. But the casual use of the word denies a far deeper connection between events. Perhaps I should work on an exposition of this concept...dare I say it - check back later...

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