Writer's Block?

Nope. That isn't the problem.

I haven't been posting lately.

It's not because I'm suffering from "writer's block."

I'm always writing.

In my head.

In the notebook(s) I write stuff in.

It's just that none of the topics I'm thinking/drafting about lately seem particularly important. Enlightening. Useful to say. Or to hear.

The times we're living in are sooo tumultous.

So unsettling

So chaotic

I feel as though I’m always waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Yet another shoe, that is.

You know??

There's that phrase "the calm before the storm."

Feels these days like it's all storm. Zero calm.

Geez.

The people who are not really paying close attention to what's going on?

I'm envious of them.

And there are so bloody many elephants in every room, a person can hardly find a bare spot of floor to put her foot down.

I suspect the only way to remain "sane" is to shrink one's focus to one's own circle, & do one's best to be loving & useful & kind to her/his loved ones.

& not always be pointing out all the damn elephants in the room.

And maybe also to find ways to be useful & kind out “in the world" - so, both kind to one's friends & loved ones - & also to neighbours & "strangers."

One can do some volunteer work, say - as Mickey Z. does in New York City among the homeless population (this may've been the post that motivated me to become one of his paid subscribers).

I volunteer for a hospice organization in my city. It feels worthwhile & rewarding & useful.

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And.

It feels like the rug is constantly being pulled out from underneath us. All of us. Some of us know that - feel that - maybe some don't. Yet. Not sure. (To me it feels visceral; impossible to ignore. But that's maybe just me.)

I'll keep on writing stuff in my head, no doubt. Seems to be the way I'm wired!

& go back & see if any of the things I've been scribbling about in recent times are worth typing up & posting for public consumption.

& maybe try to stop myself from my addictive habit of listening to so much of the deafening noise & cacophony in my attempts to grasp what's really going on in the world.

Though that too seems to be the way I'm wired. Too darn curious for my own good! 🙂 🙁

Anyway.

There's still walking

Reading good books

Faithfully, actively practicing gratitude

Loving Nature

& my peeps.

Rocky times!!!!!

One

Day

At

A

Time

p.s. I'm so often incredulous these days! I suppose there have always been many things I've been incredulous about, with regard to human affairs. But lately? They seem to be multiplying like rabbits.

Ai-yi-yi.

p.p.s. to put a time stamp on this? The Trump/Harris debate happens tonight. Canadians are for sure not immune to U.S. election fever! I was just out for a walk & saw a woman with a T-shirt that says "Kittens for Kamala." I thought “Whoa. Really??”

& a close relative berated me yesterday for my views on the U.S. political scene, about which I had actually revealed very little.

Such interesting times…