the timboucher experience

Having a public personality crisis is a pain in the ass. Having everybody watch me as I shuffle around and change clothes can get to be a bit burdensome at times. So you’ll have to forgive me if it annoys you too. I’m currently still working on figuring out a viable alternative to using the phrase “occult investigator” splashed across the top of my website. So I’ve been trying out various alternatives which maintain continuity (at least in spirit) while giving me room to grow and better describe the direction I’m headed in right now. I’m not done being an occult investigator (because it’s a great job description), but I am letting it fade into the background somewhat on this site. Obviously, I’ve already changed my logo graphic, and have been modifying my little introductory statement at the top of the page (which long time readers probably didn’t even notice - cause I know it’s an invisible graphic area to me).

Anyway, I’m basically just going forward using my name as my main vehicle, because I’ll always be that no matter what happens (hopefully…?). But I wanted to have a sort of cool name to encapsulate the conversations that go on in the journal part of this website. Sure it’s my website and I write the articles, but it’s so much more than that because of the meeting of minds, hearts and spirits that occurs on it. A couple years ago, I would never have dreamed that my site would turn into such an amazingly useful forum for me to hash ideas out with other people, and seriously learn all kinds of crazy lessons from people who I may never even meet in the flesh. (But many of whom I would certainly like to!)

So I wanted a name that reflected and respected the on-going conversations we have, as I’ve found them very profound, and hope they continue on into the future. Today, I seized upon the word “Conclave” as a nice new name for the journal part of this site (other parts I will figure out later). Conclave is cool for a few different reasons. Partly because it means a secret meeting. And also because that’s the name of the meeting that they use to elect a new pope, the Papal Conclave. In Latin, conclave comes from the roots “com” (together) and “clavis” which means key. I like the idea that we’re literally coming together with the keys, and that we’re moving towards some kind of spiritual objective in doing so. Plus, it fits nicely with my logo, the severed hand of St. Peter (the first pope) holding the keys to Heaven.

Don’t feel like you need to update your blogroll links to say “Conclave” instead of “Tim Boucher” or “Occult Investigator” or “Big Fat Jerk” or whatever you may have it listed under. It’s pretty much strictly an administrative change for my own purposes and you can do with it whatever it is that you people do with things.

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