Having dipped my toes into the blogging pool over at http://www.welovejohnkerry.com/ and worked with Democrafty and DreamingofKerry to create a blog that incorporated both our ideals and our sense of fun, I have decided to swim out a little on my own and dedicate this new blog to my own musings and thoughts about John Kerry and what his example means to me.

This blog will not generally be especially timely or politically relevant; my view is much more personal and philosophical.  I hope I will be able to express here some of the insights I have gained from observing Senator Kerry’s work and history.

John Kerry is not some pasteboard, perfect, two-dimensional hero. He is a human being, one who very much fits Eleanor Roosevelt’s definition of “a mature person”, which is given prominent place at the head of the blog.

He often acts heroically, but that is not what makes him my hero. What makes him my hero is the way he lives his life.  In every stage of his life, he has looked at his (more…)