I am writing this in quick draft mode because I just updated to the newest version of wordpress, and that is not working out too well. I felt it when I hit update. I read the thing about backing stuff up, didn’t, and knew immediately things were about to go sideways. Not like USA 2026-7 sideways, but sideways nevertheless.
So here I am in this small quick draft window trying to put a Friday blog in place before the Tyson fight. Funny how priorities shift in life. I should be building up to a moment of writing and not trying to get it done so I can watch something on the telly. I’d argue that device and the smaller cellular versions have created a wealth of ills in our society or, at the very least, exacerbated them.
This was going to be a post about this idea of the imaginary LEFT and how anyone not a card carrying Republican is being morphed into the enemy. I’ll write that one eventually. I think it requires a tad more research. I think a lot of things anymore, first and foremost being that I need to get my priorities back in whack. The truth of this blog is that I am blessed with the opportunity to even have this blog, and in that I have all the chances in the world to tell stories and spread the way I think and feel about the world. It is a pleasure. It is a freedom. It isn’t a burden or a thing to get through before the fight. It is what I need to dedicate time towards–yes ten minutes, but also want to be here in this chair all ten minutes doing this. If I can do that for the blog the way I know I can, I can do this for my other writing… The way I know I should be able to, but haven’t with any real regularity for the last, let’s be honest, thirty plus years.
It is habits of mind. It is focus. It is desire. It is what I need to work on the most.