Why I blog on this dog-gone blog

Lest I ever be accused of having my act together I would like to be perfectly frank:

At least with life in general. With this blog, however, I can confidently say:

So, What am I doing? Why did I start this blog? Where did it come from? What is it doing here? Where is it going?

But seriously though, I made this blog for more than just sharing my awesome dog-themed humor, and that's what I wanted to talk about in this post.

First I guess I should explain why I decided to start a blog in the first place. Honestly though, I don't really know how the idea got in my head. It just crawled in there and decided to stay until I started typing. I suppose I also wanted to have a forum where I could comfortably discuss my occasionally weird thoughts and ideas.

Now, after I decided, for what ever mad reason, to start a blog I had to decide what kind of blog it would be. I felt like it should be gospel oriented. But in looking at the other blogs out there none of them really felt my style. Sure I like to keep up to date on Church news, but there are other blogs that do that far better than I ever could. I also like to occasionally delve into the jots and tittles of the scriptures, but I don't feel like I'm smart enough for that. I finally thought that meditation was the way to go. I'm no expert, mind you, but I do know a thing or two about a thing or two in regards to meditation. But mostly I felt like it was important to encourage meditative practices in the church.

Now we're at the part I wanted to get to; 

Why I Feel This Blog Is Important.

A simple search on lds.org will show you that meditation is part of the gospel and important to our growth as disciples and human beings. The voices of prophets and apostles both modern and ancient are loud and clear on the importance of meditation. But I don't think Mormons, as a group, really know how to meditate.

The problem as I see it is not that we don't meditate, many members do. The problem is that we never talk about it. We rarely meditate in front one another. Currently the way us Mormons learn to meditate is from our Sunday school teachers telling us to think about stuff and figure it out on your own. While this does lead to a uniquely personalized meditation style for the user, I think it leaves us at a terrible disadvantage.

We can learn so much from each other. I can learn so much from you, from this blog. I'm not crazy or stupid enough to think that this little blog could change the world (full disclosure, I'm almost that crazy and/or stupid) but I still feel that this is important to talk about.

Now another part I wanted to get to;

The Part Where I Start Hounding My Readers

See what I did there? Hound? Dog? Call? COMEDY GOLD!

Now, I'm a little self conscious about, well, everything. So whenever I think of trying to plug this blog on other sites I think, "But then what would those strangers who I've never met before and never will meet think of me? Will they hate me? Yes. They'll probably hate me. I'd better not."

So, I'm enlisting my readership to do what I am pathologically incapable of doing. Please, share at least one of my posts with a friend, neighbor, acquaintance, stranger, mortal enemy (I'll allow you to dip the post in poison for that one), etc.. If none of my current posts seem to be something that you want to associate with (perfectly understandable response), send an idea for a better topic to segolotus@gmail.com and I'll whip you up a special post.

If you do that, I'll make a real effort to stop my neurotic self-doubt and share my blog with the world. 

Or at least share my blog with a dog.

Nameste y'all,

Michael