Not that I am one...

A note about the blog title...(and a note about my inability to type - notice the missing 'e' in the previous phrase - sickening)
I have more than a passing interest in mystical theology, the study of literature as a kind of spiritual practice, of paying attention, etc. hence the blog title. I recently graduated with an MA in Theology and the Arts from Fuller Seminary in Pasadena. I'm currently a High School English teacher in Downtown Los Angeles. I coach varsity basketball for the Downtown Magnets High School Suns. I'm in a band called The Red Eyes with our second EP due out next month. I'm recently afffianced. I occasionally sleep. It has recently occurred to me that perhaps I need to take more space for silence, solitude, reflection. Plus I love the song "Into the Mystic" by van Morrison and heard it this morning on my way to work, so when "Type in your blog name" came up and I racked my brain for something subtle, profound, invigorating, yet somehow recognizable, that's what came up. Most people that inspire me have that mystical quality, that facilitation of the divine, of direct contact with something beyond ourselves, something ineffible and incomprehensible. But I'm so rarely in that space these days, I wanted to carve out something that might allow me to reconnect with that space. I guess I could have followed the Zen man's advice and "just sat" for a half an hour later on (which I might just do), but I came across some wonderfully thoughtful blogs today (twice!) and was inspired. If I have time, I can provide links to these blogs and a few others...cheers. Some of my reticence to keep a blog has to do with the word itself - "blog" sounds a little too close to "plop" or "blob" or kind of like "agog." Let's just say it doesn't quite appeal to one's sense of aesthetics...whatever.