Soma = Body (in Greek)

Following the idea of using “psyche” as the name for the section of Alaya.net related to the soul, today I set up “soma” for a new section containing posts related to the body.  Other possible names would have been “health”, “beauty”, or “personal care”.  Yet while all these do relate to the body each of them actually excludes things in the others, whereas “body” (soma) incorporates them all, plus more.

I haven’t really written much about what motivates me to make posts, yet one basic idea is simply to have a place to store information about notable things I read and will probably want to access in the future again.  Every day I process a lot of information about different things and those which are noteworthy or important for some reason I like to keep track of.  Having Alaya.net lets me do this while enabling anyone else to also access the information.

But I also hope that Alaya.net is a place that someone would want to visit.  I find that there are actually not a lot of websites which I find really interesting and want to visit frequently.  Part of the reason I have this site is to create an interesting place.  If someone only read this site and no others what sort of things would they know about?  Perhaps be inclined to think about?  Hopefully things different than what is offered in the mainstreams.