I’ve been a member of the Progressive Bloggers community over on Word of Mouth Blog (WoMb) for years, but since WoMb has gone defunct (or dormant), I’ve transferred my writerly focus over to this personal site.

Then yesterday, Scott Tribe asked if I wanted to add this site to the ProgBlog community, and I hesitated at first, because this tends to be a rather relentlessly personal and navel-gazing blog (well, mostly; I do write stuff like this, too). I do, however, think of myself as a progressive sort, doing my part by living my life according to my principles and writing about it here.

I’m a photographer / artist / singer-songwriter / card reader / astrologer / writer and this blog is the container into (out of?) which I spill everything; I can’t really categorize myself well. On the Political Compass, I am firmly lodged way down in the lower left hand quadrant (below where Gandhi is). I’m a leftie-libertarian, which I count as ‘progressive’ though of course, if you don’t fit in that quadrant, you’re likely to disagree.

What is progressiveness? I suspect that ultimately we’re all coming toward the same central truth from our own positions in the spectral sphere, and that therefore progress is going to look different according to our individual starting places.
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