Beginning, commencement, inauguration, inception. Have you ever tried to think of as many words synonymous with the word beginning? Birth, kick-off, starting point, opening ... I was tempted to look it up at www.dictionary.com but I wanted to test myself instead. I made a list of 14 words and I’m sure there are many more.
I liked the synonym threshold the best. It has a particular fitting relevance to the name of my blog, ‘The Brief.’ And the name of my blog, suggested to me by my savvy blogger sister, Jdoc, has a particular fitting relevance to me. So let me connect this all by first telling you a bit about myself…
1. I’m a lawyer and I write legal documents called briefs for a living;
2. I am NOT brief in any sense of the word;
3. I like to put articles of construction (the) in front of descriptive words as if they are nouns in themselves; like The Lively or The Charismatic or The Brief; and
4. Well, there isn’t a fourth but I’m trying to prove the point I made in # 2.
And thus, I chose 'The Brief' for the title of my blog.
Finally, the reason I liked threshold to describe the beginning of this personal endeavor is because, in the legal world, a threshold question is usually the seminal question one asks to begin a query into whether a certain legal standard applies. Simply put, it’s the beginning of an important foray.
And such is the case for me and this blog.
A daily briefing of aimless and random thoughts
Our Wedding
The Best Day Of My Life
5 comments:
It is about time you started a blog! Can't wait to read it DAILY and give you crap when you don't write everyday;).
Yay! You are bookmarked, my friend.
I look forward to reading entries from all three docs.
MDoc
Alllllllright Cdoc, do you want me to start tallying your entries? Get WRITING!
This is way exciting. Yay. I had a feeling this would happen one of these days. More docs to read. I like that.
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