Fiasco
I am not even going to look at the date on my last entry. I can see the picture of my puppy, and how tiny he was then, I can look at him now and see how big he is, and I make no argument. Exhibit A. The prosecution rests. Case closed. [Insert more courtroom cliches HERE].
I said something at one point about a new year’s resolution, and the resolution included some notion of “regular” blogging. It is time to admit defeat. I am declaring blog bankruptcy.
I would like to thank my wife for attempting to bail me out on many occasions by encouraging me to write in this thing. Thank you, wife. You made this economic-crisis analogy possible.
The great thing about bankruptcy is it gives you a chance to reorganize. And that’s what I am going to do. I am going to learn my lessons and reorganize. And there’s really not much to be done. The big news is that I am not going to even attempt to blog on a daily, bi-daily, tri-daily, or whatever basis. I am going to blog on a weekly basis. Sometimes the entries will be long. Sometimes they’ll be short. Hopefully they’ll become conversation stimulators, because we all need that. But Monday morning, rain or shine, there’ll be an entry, and that will be it.
And then some day down the road this blog will become something completely different. I won’t even tell you what it is, but it’s a dream I’ve had. Right now, it’s not there. Some day, perhaps it will be. Another reorganization.
Failure is a wonderful thing. I used to hate it so much. I used to hate being a failure. But recently I learned that there is a huge difference between failing and being a failure. Everybody fails, but that doesn’t make you a failure. The decision to identify yourself by your failures is yours alone. You can choose to be a person who fails, as every honest person is, or you can choose to be a failure. It’s up to you.
I should probably give some examples, like Edison and the lightbulb, but I think you get the picture.
In other news, I am starting a new blog. Yeah, I know, if at first I don’t succeed, make my life harder. However, this new blog is a part of a new project I am undertaking. I am starting something new and good for my life, and this new blog (and its related project) is what I need to be doing right now. So I’ll let art+life+spirit continue to grow, albeit slowly, like a garden, and I’ll give this new thing the attention it deserves.
So that’s the long and short and long of it.
See you next Monday.
… news about the new blog is forthcoming …
