First Post!

          Anyone who has made their way over to this blog from my real life probably knows that while Live the Questions is brand-spankin'-new, my propensity for rambling endlessly via an internet journal is certainly not.  The thing is, though, that I really do want this to be a different sort of blogging experience.  I have finally figured out what it is I should be "doing with my life" (besides watching primetime dramas on DVR and eating chocolate pudding for breakfast) and I want this journal to reflect that new found sense of direction and certainty.  I spent a lot of years searching for it, after all.     
        For those who DON'T already know (and honestly, I hope that's most of you.  You'll probably be able to take me more seriously if we're just meeting now) I am currently waiting to hear back from two master's programs, one an MS in Medical Anthropology and the other an MA in the same with the opportunity for a dual-degree in Public Health. Ideally, I will get some good news within the next few weeks and I can get down to brass tacks- posting about all the fun Anthro and Psych and Biology articles I come across on the web, both from academic journals and other blogs.  The conversation going on right now regarding what makes us humans tick is amazingly fun and incredibly important- and I want more than anything to become a legitimate part of it. I hope you'll join me for the journey.

Oh!  BTW- I nabbed the blog's title from a quote by Ranier Maria Rilke that I thought captured the essence of my search for context and understanding in a way that transcended any particular discipline or endeavor. Here it is in its entirety:

…I would like to beg you…as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
--Rainier Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet