Masonic Musings from ME!

I knew it would be just a matter of time before Freemasonry moved into the Blogosphere – and as a result, set up my first Blog account back in 2003. Good thing that the tech-kiddies have finally caught up!

When blogging first appeared, I deemed it a stream of (un)consciousness with precious little worth paying attention to. Today there are some really super blogs in the areas of politics and technology but among the dozen or so Masonic-related blogs, it’s pretty much a vast wasteland. There are a couple of bloggers who’ve devoted their efforts to Freemasonry exclusively (a big shout-out to Brothers Tim and Chris in particular), and there are Masons who’ve included Masonic topics while also discussing their lives (my Brother Christian who’s been doing this almost forever it seems is a good example).  Disappointingly, though, the majority of blogs are (not unlike the internet at large) dominated by anti-Masons and those who want to push their own agenda. Nearly every blog seems to have ads on it (a subject for a later post) and at least once it appears that a Brother didn’t mind the admonition to not drink and blog! It’s an interesting sphere….

My blog – this PERSONAL blog - will have a sole primary purpose: Freemasonry. Knowing me, from time to time I’ll throw in a bit about software that’s been good to me, a book I feel is particularly good, or some pithy commentary about the fun of chasing lobsters around the back yard so that some day I’ll be able to convince the Compuserve Masonry Forum users to do some wood cutting up here. (You had to be there, folks….) I was going to name this blog “Suzy and the Man by the Waterford” or some such cutsie title so it would fit right in with the current crop. I’d even thought about doing it anonymously since the shrill ones moaning about the imagined ills of Freemasonry seem to be awfully good about pretending that they’re not really who we know they are – and they also seem to have three or four other blogs to make sure they can get someone to pat them(seleves) on the back. Pretty odd. 

So here we are. I hope you’ll add this to your blogroll and in return I’ll try to keep you abreast of things in the Masonic world that come to my attention. I won’t bother with a feedback option: there are already FAR too many disparate places online where one can create a tempest in a teapot if they wish. Heck, when a message board with less than 70 registered users becomes the center of attention, we’ve got just FAR too much time on our hands!

Stay tuned: I hope to be able to provide some interesting stuff as time moves along.

Best,   Ed