On and On
I limit myself to about five to eight paragraphs per post, because I'm not writing a tome here, nor am I going into great depths with my writings. I'd rather give morsels than a five course dinner. Instead of short essays, I could be writung chapters or a book itself. I give insights to my life and touch on some philosophical content, but this is supposed to be light and fun as opposed to some deep thinking.
Once in a while I'll fail, but I pay attention to my wife's comments on each one. She usually has something to say after reading each one. My background is both philosophy and theology, with a more recent focus on my Spirituality. I can't avoid the topics and try not to venture off into the unknown. But in some ways all of life is philosophical in some form or another, but politics is the one area of life I vehemently try to avoid.
My Spirituality is strictly my own and I never seek to evangelize. I won't even evangelize pipe smoking, but it is what I do. I hardly ever write anything without a pipe. I'll try to avoid smoking my pipe when conversing with my wife here on the patio. But when writing a pipe is in my mouth whether lit or unlit. Sometimes it will go out and I just don't want to interrupt my thinking to light it.
But when I'm smoking my pipe and writing my wife will very seldom interrupt me. But what I try to avoid is writing too extensively on any topic. These are simply short essays that I hope in most cases are enjoyable to read. Sometimes I've failed. My wife isn't shy about letting me know when I have. Sometimes I get in a little too deep. But I'm my own editor and I don't even like my wife to know what I've said before she reads it. She gets it when everyone else does.
Sometimes I get "out there." But it just makes me better the next time. Sometimes I know when I'm over my head, but still pretend I'm touching bottom. Then her comment will be something like "deep but interesting." I could really get into it deep, but just a few paragraphs don't allow for too deep. You can be thankful for that. Some things requires some research and memory, but I try not to do that very much.
I can draw from life experiences as I've had plenty to draw from. But I avoid self-therapy here. Writing is my therapy. It keeps my mind active. But while my mind can be triggered into over-reacting, this is something I'll avoid. I write mostly in the mornings and by afternoon I'm ready to just relax. I can be up at the crack of dawn, but prefer to stay in bed until the alarm goes off. I learned to write 20 minute sermons, but these essays are more like five-minute sermonettes.
A sermon has an intro, three points, and a conclusion. These are only the intro. That's all they're meant to be. I just leave out the three points. Or try to. And once in awhile I'll bomb. This is post number 601 just for this blog. Only a few have had a lot of hits. But I don't write for the hits. I simply write and sometimes not as simply as I like. But at least I try. My pipe this morning is my Peterson Sherlock Holmes pipe with Dave's Special Blend and my coffee is Stumptown Holler Mountain. Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.
Dave
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