I’ll thank for my son for this name which resonates with me on a variety of levels. While I’m tempted to say I can thank technology for the name of this site, for me there is something much more mysterious at work here.
I was driving with my son and I happened to blow a shift and – grinch – there it was, even with a modern manual transmission designed to shift smoothly, I managed to extract that nice grinding sound out of a fairly new car.
Since my son was about to start driver training, I took the opportunity to edify him about yet another aspect of how cars work (yawn, um, yeah right, OK, whatever … Dad). We coined a new nickname for me – synchromeshgrinder. Since that’s a bit long for a domain name and the “proper” spelling of synchromesh was already taken, I opted for a common misspelling.
The nickname struck me as quite apropos … and then the gears in my head started turning and I started connecting dots. I seem to have a talent for seeing associations – connections if you will, between things that may not be apparent to others.
As of late, much of my personal reading, thinking and writing is connected in one way or another with consciousness – as in awakening. It’s all to easy to move through life unconsciously, in a habitual way and when I fall asleep, I blow the shift and have to wake up: again …
So this site is probably not going to have much to do with cars, but more to do with those connections that I find fascinating. I enjoy writing when I have the chance, so this little experiment is my outlet to do just that in a slightly more public fashion than my usual.
I do happen to be something of “motorhead”, so while I’m keenly interested in the spiritual and metaphysical realm, there’s a pretty good chance I’ll post a few things about cars and motorcycles and other random technology that I either use or find of particular interest.
P.S. It can’t be coincidence that the original header image for this site is named “path.jpg” and shows a man walking along an idyllic country road. Is he walking toward us or away? Hmm … seems like a good topic for an essay since that image is jam packed symbolism (my current perspective), but then that’s what makes life interesting isn’t it?