The last day of 2004 I wrote the first words of a blog on a quiet little site of writers and readers. There are now nearly 400 pages of that blog, and it’s still there on Blogit; the site that has become quieter over the years but still hangs on. I still add to it with ideas, stories of my experiences, and anything else that seems to fit the theme.

I’ve been asking the Universe to explain itself to me since I was about 11 years old and asked consciously how to reconcile God with Science. Now and then, I seem to tune in on an answer. All that I write here represents not Truth, but what I believe to be true. I have my reasons, and I like to believe, my reason.

It’s now been 60 more years since I first asked that question. I’ve paused now and then, gotten distracted or side-tracked, but never stopped looking for a better focus on The Big Picture.

The Universe is a great, unbounded, multi-dimensional puzzle, and this is the space where I lay out the bits of it that I’ve collected and how I’ve put some of them together. Here I spill out my bag of puzzle-pieces and patches I’ve connected, and you’re welcome to pick around and possibly discover bits that fit your own picture of the Universe.

This blog explores thoughts and ideas, models of How It All Works, techniques of exploration, stories of my own adventures in the Universe. It is about the physical, the mental and emotional, and the spiritual aspects of being human. It’s about how things are connected, how all our various levels of being interact and make us whole. It’s about how what makes us individually whole can also mend and connect us as cultures living together on this little planet–not just human, but also other hearts and minds, other consciousness in the world.

No two of us points of consciousness have quite the same view of the Universe, but there’s plenty of overlap, plenty to share.

Welcome to the point where I stand gazing outward and inward, and HOW THE UNIVERSE LOOKS TO ME.