2. deliverance; rescue.

Initial thoughts...

pot⋅pour⋅ri 
–noun
1. a mixture of dried petals of roses or other flowers with spices, kept in a jar for their fragrance.
2. a musical medley.
3. a collection of miscellaneous literary extracts.
4. any mixture, esp. of unrelated objects, subjects, etc.

re⋅demp⋅tion 
–noun
1. an act of redeeming or the state of being redeemed.
2. deliverance; rescue.
3. Theology. deliverance from sin; salvation.
4. atonement for guilt.
5. repurchase, as of something sold.
6. paying off, as of a mortgage, bond, or note.
7. recovery by payment, as of something pledged.
8. conversion of paper money into specie.

This is my first attempt at blogging and I'm both excited and a little anxious. I've always struggled with putting down my thoughts in writing, because I tend to be overly concerned with how they will be interpreted. There's just such a permanence and vulnerability to it, you know? At least that's the way I see it.

So, in a way, this first post, and I suppose this blog experiment in general, is my first sample of redemption. The redemption of my fears of writing, my fears of being misunderstood, my fears of being known. I will be attempting to document little samples, a medley if you will (hence potpourri), of redemption that see or experience or hear about as life unfolds.

The pictures up there next to the definitions are just the first pictures that happened to pop up when I searched "potpourri" and "redemption" in Google images. Some of you might recognize the picture of "redemption" as the movie cover of The Shawshank Redemption, which is an amazing, and indeed, a very redemptive movie. More to come next time...