This is the first official post here at Homegrown Philosofood and as the starting point I thought it would be appropriate to lay out the initial goals of this blog and address the unorthodox name. Hopefully a quick read of the goals here will convince you to check back in for future posts and at the very least it should let you know what this place is all about.
My major goal for this blog is that it will be a place to drop by with assurance that you will find something that is at once entertaining, informative, and challenging. By challenging I don't mean challenging to read(more on this in a minute), I mean challenging to think about. I would love nothing better than for you to be humming along 3 days after reading a post and still mulling over a concept or idea from one of these posts. If I can continually put out content that meets those three criteria I will be thrilled and I hope that any eventual readers would be pleased as well.
Another goal that goes hand in hand with the first is that I want all of the posts to be approachable, digestible, and easy, or maybe even fun, to read. I really want to address a lot of gardening, cooking, and philosophy topics that may be quite complex or even "heavy" but I want them to be easy to read and enjoyable. In a nutshell: distillation of complex ideas and concepts into succinct yet entertaining posts.
So right at this point you are likely wondering "what exactly will you be writing about?" To answer this I will address the name of the blog. Homegrown Philosofood. Homegrown= anything DIY. DIY projects, concepts, innovation, construction, growing, anything that you will do on your own and most likely at your own home. I will be writing about a lot of DIY projects that I do here at the house and I want to convey my passion for innovation and improvisation at the individual level. Philosofood= a portmanteau of sorts combining philosophy and food. Philosophy is essentially an open door to anything and I will use it in that capacity when necessary but for the most part I will stick to the philosophy of DIY, innovation, motivation, growing and gardening, and food. That being said, do expect some interesting purely philosophical musings from time to time. I am extremely passionate about food on every level from growing it to preserving it to cooking and eating it. To me food represents one of the few universal necessities to which we can, and must, all relate. Food is vastly different to everyone and in every place yet it is a necessary shared experience. Food is visceral, it's importance and impact is readily felt and understood by anyone. I want to address my interests in food and hopefully provide some new food ideas to anyone who finds themselves here for a quick read.
So with all of that in mind, expect to be entertained, to be informed, and to be challenged. I tend to think that you are either in a state of growth or a state of decay, there is no static state. Just look at nature for confirmation, even the most steadfast and unchanging things we see are either in an imperceptible state of growth or decay, and everything else we see is more apparently in one of these states. This blog is a place for me to hopefully continue my growth in many aspects. I hope you will check back in and grow with me.
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