About... About being here

Dear Reader,
This blog is called “About being here”.
To begin with that was because my initials are A.B.H. (Bach and Shostakovich after all took the letters of their names as the starting notes for some of their compositions).
But having created it I didn’t know what to write in it. It was always going to be about me and my experience of life, in short, about being here. However, I didn’t yet have the way in. I didn’t want to write a pedestrian diary (“Woke up, got out of bed, Dragged a comb across my head”). Or a series of more occasional pieces in the style of “what I did during my holidays”. Or rants soon to be regretted. So I didn’t start.
Over the last three months I have been reading Montaigne. It seems to me that if Montaigne had been writing his Essays now, they would have appeared as entries in his blog. I realized this is what I wanted to write.
His “essais” are exactly that: “attempts”; attempts at setting down certain aspects of life, of groping towards (for want of a better word) wisdom.
About being here, then, will be a series of attempts to capture what it is to be alive in the present, as experienced by myself..
Montaigne also writes to his reader, that his aim initially was to leave something of himself for those who knew him to read and remember him by.
So be it.
I hope you enjoy “about being here”.
ABH