This is the first post on the W.E.D. blog. This blog is inspired in part by NaNoWriMa (National Novel Writing Month) (http://www.nanowrimo.org/) and by Seth Godin's blog entry from a few weeks ago (http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/09/talkers-block.html) and I hope it will serve as a way to get me writing...and you too, perhaps. I am struck by both those inspirations commitment to commitment; writing is commitment in a way talking is not. It reminds me of Cedric Bryant saying "You don't know what you know until you write it down." I'm still pretty sure that is a somewhat limiting definition of knowing something...do I not know I love my children unless I write it down? What if something is ineffable...can it then not be known?...but it speaks to the power of definition and language.
I'm hoping that this blog will give me some commitment to writing about things I care about and am interested in. While the writing I do for work is often satisfying, I find it pretty limiting, and I want to "know what I know" a bit more about several things, especially some things I don't know much about right now: Mark Rothko, the Dresden Dolls, and math instruction being just a few.
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