Blogging as an outlet for thinking

When I was a kid, I could better express complex ideas in writing than verbally. It was frustrating to have ideas forming in my brain that I couldn't really express, or develop, so I started to write them down in notebooks. The notebooks are long gone. As I reviewed them years, or even months after writing a theme, I found them not worth keeping. I thought I was a bad writer, but should have realized I was maturing like any kid, at a pace that made my writing and thinking obsolete.

The benefit that stayed with me was that I learned to write pretty good. And some of the themes I developed, while not new to mankind, did put a stamp on how I think today.