Blogger's Intent:

The intent of this entry is little more than acknowledging my blogging begins as inspiration from my daughter Shawna who had led the blogging way with her own blog page. The issues that have surfaced in our society over the past years now demand our collective attention, as a social body. However, it is not the intent of this blog to directly address the social issues as a focus, but the social body itself, as a means of addressing what we as individuals have in common during times when the social issues are manifest and have control over our individual as well as collective lives.
At this time there will also be a blogging page on my personal business' site, ImageAssociatesAZ.com. This business is a partnership with my son, whom is and will be a driving force for the business, which deals in digital photography and video. My family, as yours, is dealing with the fallout from the economic shakedown that is currently unfolding, in every sector. Banking, housing, finance, large and small businesses. What we are learning now, as individuals, family members, business owners and citizens is that we all count. We are all worthy of making it past this time of upheaval and uncertainty. Non of us are better than anyone else. It is in our best interest to change the primary focus on life in America from the old tenets of. . . "Greed is good". . ."everyone for themselves" and "I got mine screw you!" and other refrains having found social acceptance over the past thirty years. And I have been around long enough to remember life before such self-defeating social practices.
Over time I will be commenting on various issues concerning the above focus on getting beyond old and socially destructive policies, and discussing a new paradigm in thinking that can be applied individually, and that can have potentially positive consequences for the larger social body. This takes time to formulate and expound upon in order to reach a workable thesis for review. The bloggers are us. We the people have a platform that can reach everyone, and belongs to us; the people, the individual. Let us use it wisely.

Pops