Introductory bits

It is January 31st, 2013 and it is evening. Therefore, not a good time for me to begin blogging as my mind has pretty much run out of steam by this time of week and at this hour of the night. However, I am looking forward to putting my thoughts in a blog or two come morning. I find that my mind seems to race with wild and woolly ideas early in the morning, though i am decidedly not a morning person.
Since I hardly have anything scintillating to share at the moment, I thought that i would get the introductory bits out of the way with this blog.

I should perhaps explain my purpose for starting a blog. It is very simply to get the aforementioned wild and woolly thoughts out of my head and on 'paper'. My thoughts tend to center around theological questions and spiritual matters.

The title (and my blogger name "Tirlittan") are Finnish. When I was a child, my mother used to sing a song to be about a girl named Tirlittan, who was orphaned and forced to make her way in a world that did not necessarily receive her with open arms. Nevertheless, Tirlittan persisted without bitterness, relying on God. I loved the song especially when my mother sang it; it was at once humorous, a little dark and yet so charming.

The word 'tuumii' is the grammatically convoluted result of the Finnish word 'tuumia', which means to ruminate. I suppose I could have named the blog "Tirlittan Ruminates"...but i didn't.

Essentially though that is precisely what i do most mornings; I ruminate about things. It's as if someone comes by at night and fills my head up with thoughts that burst into a full-blown oratory upon my waking. I don't know if i am just tragically full of myself, but I find the thoughts zinging around my brain incredibly interesting. It's just that those moments of 'brilliance' are confined to the early morning hours and by the time i have a chance to write them down, they have all but deserted my cranium.

I suppose this blog is as much an experiment for me as anything else. If I manage to get my early morning ruminations recorded in some fashion and then have the opportunity to examine them with the workday-worn mind, perhaps i will discover whether they have any merit at all.

Well, that's about it. Time to launch the blog....