It’s May still, but for some reason it feels like December. At the end of every year the “to-do’s” seem to multiply and overflow, and I rush from one thing to another, never quite finishing any of them. Last December was no exception and it’s been happening for more years than I can count.
But last December never seems to have gone away. It’s still happening five months later. So my post for last weekend is still in the draft pile, half written — at least it’s still on top — and there is no quiet time in which to complete and proof it.
I have been looking at something I call “comment to post ratio”. I can post away here in this blog, at the risk of losing touch with what goes on “out there”, or I can spend time staying in touch and commenting in other blogs, guarding my words (usually, hopefully) and never quite saying what I feel needs to be said. There is a natural tension between the two, and I am feeling it.
And so it goes. Whatever this ratio may prove to be from week to week, I will do what I can to to continue connecting what was recorded long ago with what we are living in today.
We have to let it out somehow. When speaking 1:1 with 'true believers', I seek something verifiably true to say that might possibly take root and grow some day. Changing other minds is beyond me. I've believed and done some rather stupid things too, paid a price for it, and I understand.
So many things to do and so little time to get them done! It's the human condition.
I just throw up my hands at some things. This is one.
We have to let it out somehow. When speaking 1:1 with 'true believers', I seek something verifiably true to say that might possibly take root and grow some day. Changing other minds is beyond me. I've believed and done some rather stupid things too, paid a price for it, and I understand.