Blogging Virginity...Taken by Self-Pleasure

I'm always looking for new ways to be a virgin. I mean, it's probably not because I find virtue in virginity as much as it has to do with the invigorating feeling that comes from discovering newness, inexperience, and longing and moving past those feelings into ones of experience, knowledge and groundedness.

This blogging space is like that for me. I suppose I could call myself a writer of sorts. I'm a graduate student, for goddesses' sake - it's what we do...read, write, read, write. I generally enjoy the process of encountering a writer, some eloquent offering into the universe and then participating in the sacred conversation of critique and general engagement. What is less often exercised, though, is my own offering into the universe - one that is unincumbered by academic speak, verbose entanglement with the issues in a text, or some other heady shit. It is the process of free writing, free expression, and sacred sharing that i seek...that my virgin pen (or keyboard in the 21st century) calls for. I seek the sharing of myself through the process...