Everything & Anything

 Write what you know. That's probably the easiest thing to wirte about, after all, what you know, you know, no? The question is (I seem to be always asking questions, Lol!) what do I know? And, how do I know that I know, you know? I have been trying to write since my last post and I have come up with...nothing. Yup, a big nothing. Or maybe it's that I have come up with too many "somethings' that I am uncomfortable with or too cowardly or embarassed to write about because they cut too close to home? Or maybe it's somewhere in between. I know emotions, the highs, the lows, the bleh.  I know disappointment and pain - intimately. I know self doubt - too well. I know sacrifice - annoyingly so. I also know joy - happily so. I know gratitude, grace and mercy - gifts from God that I try never to take for granted. I have known peace and have known, enjoyed and enjoy solitude. So, knowing all these and more unmentioned, what do I, should I write about? Let me think. Enjoy yo...

 My last post was May 12, 2019. Wow. Wow. And again, Wow. I haven’t written anything in three years. Except you count my WhatsApp responses to other people’s posts I think must be answered - people tend to say the darndest things and expect you to just accept it.  Social media has become a platform for social reform and most often not for the better - fact and fiction, gems and drivel are merged to form a warped “truth” spewed out with conviction and not many bother to check what’s what. Intellectual slothfulness and an absence of social responsibility? What’s that got to do with me writing? Nothing, lol. Just meandering - I am writing as I think, which means I jump back and forth between topics like a jumping jelly bean! Back to why I haven’t been writing. It’s not writer’s block in that I was trying to write but couldn’t, but more like I did not want to. Let me explain - my writing was always a function of my emotional state, and that state has been, well, let’s just use the...