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“Too much”, or “I need to focus”

​I love to write. I love blogging. Yet there are challenges. Distributing my focus lowers my effectiveness. That troubles me. And yet, though each site has meaning to me. But each site has costs, economic and otherwise. Every time I focus on one, I can’t focus on another. 

I haven’t had an objective, much less a strategy on any of my sites. I love to write poetry, about Seattle, about sustainability, geek culture, about so very much. Each site has value to me. I hate the idea of neglecting one at the expense of another. Yet I also hate writing substandard stuff. I prefer to be proud of what I put on the internet. 

This time in history has so many choices; a blizzard of potentials and possibilities. And I hate letting go of those potentials. Any of them. Yet I know that must be done to achieve ANY of them. How does one choose which baby to let die?

Perhaps overly dramatic, but it captured the sentiment I’ve been struggling with. 

Fear gains it’s power

Loving our neighbors?

From the seeds of our distrust

Fear gains its power 

Rage’s Deceptions: A Haiku

Something to beware
Rage’s deceptive power
Corroding our souls


The next in my exploration of rage.

Hope: Rage’s Antidote 

Rage’s hopelessness

It’s the mirror of despair 

Hope: the antidote

Hope requires vision, and the belief that humanity can work together. 

Counteracting the rage: a haiku

Fear births rage 

So easily exploited

Instead, speak of hope 

Countering rage with rage isn’t creatuve, isn’t beautiful. We only become more divided, leaving more scorched earth, more broken. We must remember community has value, too. 

This Age of Rage: A Haiku

In this age of rage 

Where invective flows freely 

Seek this voice of grace 

A Cycling Haiku

I move with the wind
Upon these steel wheels
Over asphalt night

I was able to ride this evening. Something I delight to do, though time has been challenging of late. The feeling of drifting over the road has long brought me tranquility and peace. A critical peace of my sanity while, as a young teen, I watched my mother consumed with cancer. Motion soothed my tortured soul. 

This Friday morning: a haiku

​And now dawn has come

Sleep kept this hidden from me

Until the birds called

In seeking a life with purpose

​Living with purpose

With effectiveness and joy

A life worth living 

A Haiku About Strategic Thinking

So many demands

Assets pulled so many ways

Success needs focus

I’m exploring my options regarding blogging. I love this, but also feel compelled to focus. Come read more of my thoughts over on this post