To blog or not to blog?

Now there's a question I've been thinking for a time. It's been suggested to me from time to time that I should have write a budo blog, something about Japan, its customs, history and culture, how they relate to what we practise, and also from time to time to explain what our sensei REALLY meant when he said this or that. Until now I never wanted to start blogging, for several reasons.

One of them is my deep mistrust of anything that has to do with the wide and faceless thing that's called internet. Another one is that I don't really feel the need to tell everything that I do to everyone that might happen to find my scribblings in the said internet. Still one is that I've always been a very lazy writer - never kept a diary for longer than a few weeks, and if you've ever had to wait for my email replies, well... All I can do is apologize. :) So there's a big chance that this blog will die in some months, but then again, that's life.

Now, however, I decided to put this thing up. It will actually begin with some posts I've written earlier elsewhere, so that anyone interested will catch up on things I've been writing previously. Also, be aware that unlike suggested, this won't be dedicated purely to budo. There will probably be a lot of zen and buddhism, as that's something I know and like to talk about (as some of you might have noticed). Be warned by the title of the blog. I will try to keep it Japan-related, though.

What a mission statement...