Month: January 2015

S A B B A T I C A L

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“Maybe you’ve just been on sabbatical,” Joisey said as we wrote love letters last week. I suppose I have been.    I like how some self employed people say, “I take two full days off then I feel fully recharged.”  Wow, I needed like two whole months.  And I’m practically unemployed. Ladies and gentleman, I am calling my blog absence a sabbatical.   I am labelling it so for my own benefit.  I didn’t stop thinking about it, I just couldn’t put anything out.  Did I miss it?  Well, I missed being able to put thoughts into words.  I missed the urgency I had to work lines through in my notebook.  I missed the compulsion to explore a thought, engagement in a new business or product I discovered, and the ability to breeze in and out of a party without double booking my evening or feeling really tired. Anxiety came for an extended visit, and I hated myself for it.  Books and magazines I wanted to read piled up.  Articles I was working on became lost …

Don’t Forget Me Though I’ve Been Gone

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There was a dirt hill exiting the woods leading down to a path across a rickety wooden bridge at my neighborhood playground.  I remember this hill being very high and steep.  It was challenging, exciting, but never dangerous.  I remember running down it each time we wanted to reach the park, but do not have any recollection of falling down or slipping.  There was no fear or hesitation in my steps, and because of it, I was able to successfully get from point A to B each and every time. Today, I would likely see that hill as slippery, unstable, dangerous, and intimidating even if it is smaller to an adult as it was to a nine year old.  I can just see myself today, trying to scale down it sideways and still slipping while kicking up enough dust to fill an ankle boot.  In my attempt to be cautious, I would surely risk more injury than if I used secure but large and quick strides to come down. I have thought of that hill …