I’ve been thinking about time and where it goes when I am home. A lot of it goes to gaming. I spend hours playing Slay the Spire, though that is just the latest in a long line of such distractions designed to keep me from dealing with the hard part of my job. Here on the beach I know I can make better and healtheir use of my time, if I just allow for it. No organizer in the world is going to make me do it. This is a matter of willpower I don’t always have.
I do have a desire. What I need to get good at is harnessing that into action and finding the way to prioritze what is important in my life and my actions. Much in the same way I find ten minutes to write this thing, I can find 10 to exercise, ten to write a story, etc. It doesn’t take all the time in the world. It takes the will and the want to do it every single day as opposed to what I have been doing, which is absolutely not that. I languish and lounge and that can be healthy in doses, but it cannot be the source of everything. It cannot come first.
I will no longer blame the environment. That is what it is and I know it to be that way. How I respond is what matters.
Some Thoughts:
- Absolutely Bonkers Headline of the Day: “Raucous bird tornado touches down as snow geese make annual flight to Arctic” That’s wild. And cute in a strange way…
- Political, but also: “Man who attacked Michigan synagogue lost relatives in Israeli airstrike in Lebanon, official says” This is being treated as a terror attack, but is it? This is largely another example of the oversized media attention towards antisemetic attacks. The “largest” such attack in US history suffered 11 dead. Meanwhile, speak to any other religious, sexual, or minority group to be targeted. The Tulsa attack left nearly 300 black folk dead. Orlando Nightclub attack targeting LGBTQ left 49 dead. Mountain Meadows? 120 Mormons slain. Need more recent that the 1800s for religion? Sutherland Springs. 2017. 26 Baptists dead. Yet, what we hear is that Synagogues need to hire security and shoot first. This is just not accurate. What is true, and what is always true is recency bias and an undercurrent of understanding that what Israel is doing is going to find Americans angry and vengeful.