Why I started this

I'm not really sure why I started this; I've been mulling it over for a couple years. Perhaps what finally triggered it was a desire to write, and so sharpen my thought on various issues. I don't know how often I will be updating this venue; it will take discipline on my part that I'm not sure I have, but hope to develop. I have no specific issue to comment on at this point, so a verse from Tolkien seems appropriate:

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with weary feet,
Until it joins some larger way,
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.