As I’ve said before, I tend to
avoid political conversations in a public forum. I don’t know if it is a product of my age, or
a true change in the civility level of national discussion, but the nastiness and
name-calling tends to leave me impotent with anger, hardly a productive frame
of mind.
However, as a writer, I do use writing as a means of organizing
my thoughts, even when I don’t anticipate those thoughts launching forth into
the world. Sporadically, for around
three decades, I've kept journals and ruminated on various topics, largely
personal, but occasionally with political aromas.
The gun debate, particularly in the wake of the Sandy Hook
shooting, left me, like everyone else, dismayed. I turned to writing to review my perspective, to see just how my opinions grew to be.
The result, Long Guns & Tall Tales, somewhat meandering
and definitely personalized, ended up being shared with a couple of friends, and
then passed on to B2L2. I wasn't the only writer turning to words to
try to work out opinions on guns, so B2L2 put together a theme
issue on the topic.
Here on Artful Mistakes, I'll continue on with my usual artier topics shortly.
