About

Hello! I’m Braid­wood, the writer of this blog. Wel­come! I hope you find some­thing inter­est­ing and use­ful here. Read on to learn more!

Braid­wood = Artist, Per­former, Educator

Authen­tic Threads =
A great place to find…

1. Uplift­ing music, lyrics, quotes, and videos.
2. Use­ful Infor­ma­tion like my fre­quently viewed arti­cles about health.
3. My essays and reviews about polit­i­cals and morals, movies and books.
4. My art, music, and poetry.
5. My pri­vate thoughts and feel­ings that I never thought I would be shar­ing in public!

I love, love, love hear­ing from you.

I post all the good things I find here in my blog hop­ing that you’ll find it use­ful too. If you do, please leave me a note sayin’ so!

His­tory

I started this blog about 6 years ago (!) on Blog­ger as part of a class assign­ment for grad school. It started out as “My refrig­er­a­tor door” which I mis-typed as “My refrig­er­a­tor doot” (Thus my old tagline: “Long live the Doot, Dearie!”). After sev­eral other names, and one other host­ing spot, I’ve moved to my very own url.

Inspi­ra­tion for the Name

I wanted a blog where I could just fol­low my train of inter­ests along from one thing to the next.  I love this poem by William Stafford and it inspired the name.

Look: no one ever promised for sure
that we would sing. We have decided
to moan. In a strange dance that
we don’t under­stand till we do it, we
have to carry on.Just as in sleep you have to dream
the exact dream to round out your life,
so we have to live that dream into sto­ries
and hold them close at you, close at the
edge we share, to be right.

We find it an awful thing to meet peo­ple,
seri­ous or not, who have turned into vacant
effec­tive peo­ple, so far lost that they
won’t believe their own feel­ings
enough to fol­low them out.

The authen­tic is a line from one thing
along to the next; it inter­ests us.
Strangely, it relates to what works,
but is not quite the same. It never
swerves for revenge,

Or profit, or fame: it holds
together some­thing more than the world,
this line. And we are your wav­ery
efforts at fol­low­ing it. Are you com­ing?
Good: now it is time.

- William Stafford

Thanks for join­ing me for part of the ride! Choo choo!