Documenting my quest to balance the intellectual, physical, spiritual, sensual, and social.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Intellectual, Physical, Spiritual, Sensual, Social

Hi, Katherine here. Welcoming myself to the blogosphere.

I'm going to use this space to document life's goings-on. There are probably blogging rules that say you should limit the scope of your blog, but I don't think there's one category of my life that could fill an entire blog. Besides, my life is all about exploring different ways to express myself in this world, and I want to capture that here.

I've been trying to think about how to organize my ramblings, and the answer popped out at me this morning from a passage in my current book:

(Lata, the protagonist, is seeing her best friend, Malati, for the first time since summer break)

'I've had enough of myself for awhile, and I want to hear something different. What's your news?'
'What sort of news do you want?' asked Malati. 'Intellectual, physical, political, spiritual, or romantic?'

These categories pretty well sum me up! A few slight modifications though:
  • I may occasionally mention political matters, but not often enough to warrant a separate label. Political thoughts will be lumped under the intellectual heading.
  • As a married woman, I'll keep life's romantic tidbits off the web, thank you very much. I'm going to replace this category with 'sensual,' to cover food, music, art, etc.
  • One piece of my life not captured by the above is my social experiences - being with Justin, friends, family. This is a dimension of myself that I often let fall to the bottom of the list. Perhaps all the more reason to document it here.
And so it begins! I know christen thee, new blog, as the vessel of my quest to balance the intellectual, physical, spiritual, sensual, and social.

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