raison d’être

This blog is being built upon the precipice of a few futures: a summer in Europe with Wheaton College’s Youth Hostel Ministry, a year as the RA of Evans 2, and the eternally expansive threshold of me transcending sinfully natural limits to become one entranced solely by the Right One and righteousness– my heavenly Father and His works.

And, yes, what you just read may be your first JBrown sentence. Welcome to my world in which cacophonic thoughts attempt to become pleasing poetry as they writhe, wrestling with the English lexicon to find harmony through the pursed lips of these misplaced lobes (that is, my brain, contrary to common belief, is found somewhere floating, unfixed, in front of my sternum).

So, why do I welcome you along on these journeys? Eh, I don’t know yet. Maybe it is because I think pensivity is too great an adventure to go alone. Maybe it is because I believe that what is occurring in my heart and mind is yearning to make some waves in the collective consciousness pool of postmodern thought. Maybe it is because I believe that Jesus can walk even upon those stormy waters. And, maybe I’ll prance around before returning to my initial answer: I do not know yet. Relativity sucks, don’t it? That’s why I need your firing neurons to collide with mine, and this exchange of psychological mortar will be the envy of all wars past and future. Then maybe by thinking and expressing, we can all find peace - or at least the buffer that is understanding.

Now, to the future topics of this blog:

• Peace, shalom, community, and reconciliation - my mind, heart, and soul’s closest lovers, right after a worshipful admiration of their Creator
• Travel – I hope to bring you along through Europe, a-hostelling we shall go!
• Politics – eh, not likely but I’ll give myself some liberal bounds as I am an International Relations Major
• Art…? – possibly even less likely, as I tend to do rather than publically philosophize when it comes to art, but maybe what you’ll find on here will help you to form a view/definition of art (as something that may come up is a theology of continual creation)

Additional things you may find here:

• Passive language: I need your help to dry the grout and make the mosaic of my worldview concrete.
• Tangled-necklace language: During my senior year of high school my English teacher told me that my writing was like an entanglement of gold necklaces: very pretty but not very accessible. So, good luck…?
• That-is-not-English language: Okay, so I make up words. Some of them are informed by my intermediate understanding of French. Some of them I have thought were words for a long time, but am simply misinformed (en exemple: “moreso” is actually two words as I’ve recently been told, though I’ve used in many papers as just one…oops.) Un autre: “pensivity”, though technically not a word according to Word, but as you may have ascertained, it is the nature [or nurture] of being pensive. Trivia: penser [pohn*say] is the French verb to think.
• Metaphoric language: I work in images and concepts. The minute you narrate anything for me I am probably seeing it live and in color, and likely in a very odd way. Just as images are imprinted on my brain, so my brain expresses via my mouth or my typing or painting fingers. This is truly a blessing and a curse. Don’t understand what I’m saying at one given point? Drink it again. Still nothing? Let it simmer. Still nothing? Go to the source. I will not claim to be the well, but I will likely know some way to get the unfettered bucket up from the bottom of it. (That was an unwarranted manifest example.)

Well folks, thanks for joining. Was this long? No. This is the most practical post you may see. This is an experiment. I’m trying to see what it’s like to increase the number of philosophical collisions so as to distil the emissions of my soul, and maybe our souls. I hope that if this does not bring any enjoyment, it may at least be for some better good of us. I do not want this to just be a “Jason posts weird wonderings” space; I want this to be a place to explore oneself and the essence(s) of humanity and be in community and communion. (Practical translation: Please comment and be willing to be commented on.)

C’est tout pour maintenant. That’s all for now
[say*too*pohr*mayn*teh*nahn]

Peace out.