tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536580173838463270.post8611301735295199540..comments2024-03-01T16:40:24.819-07:00Comments on To Square a Circle: you have to start small, like oak trees.BarbNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12088366782915923507noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536580173838463270.post-68032940735881621962016-09-17T12:54:13.381-06:002016-09-17T12:54:13.381-06:00Oh I understand this. I am at a cross-roads mysel...Oh I understand this. I am at a cross-roads myself on the old blog. I have finally admitted to myself that after 8 years of blogging my blog mojo may have taken a permanent break. I am not yet ready to say the final goodbye but I am considering it.<br /><br />I will miss reading you. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17708136104704483342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536580173838463270.post-86368845493999211102016-09-14T02:03:06.438-06:002016-09-14T02:03:06.438-06:00I understand, but boy will I miss the musings.... ...I understand, but boy will I miss the musings.... and the updates on chickens/dogs/classes.<br /><br />Probably what I loved most about ALL of your blogs was how your thinking takes you places that mine never has. I love that about us. Our differences, which invariably reminded me of our sameness.<br /><br />You do you. <br />(That's my new favorite saying, it's delightful.)Juliehttp://www.urthalun.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536580173838463270.post-49378698333400552872016-09-13T10:14:31.249-06:002016-09-13T10:14:31.249-06:00I have really enjoyed reading your blog, and appre...I have really enjoyed reading your blog, and appreciate all the "food for thought" I get while reading it. Your insights almost always trigger me to think more deeply, or more carefully about issues. Personally, I will miss "reading your mind" through these posts, but I understand where you are coming from. Lack of feedback can be demoralizing, but it is also deceptive because you never get to know how much your writing affects us. I do think that when you take something "away" (like blogging) you open up space for something else in your life, and I hope the "something else" is rewarding!<br /><br />A mutual friend of ours said something to me once that stung and MADE ME SO ANGRY that I remember it to this day--- At a post high school, post university gathering (probably someone's wedding) she asked me what I was doing and I told her I was in law school and she summarily dismissed it as "...something I toyed with doing...". TOYED WITH DOING? TOYED with making the grades, taking the tests, applying, being accepted and then succeeding?? FURIOUS. I toyed with being FURIOUS at her, but just weakly smiled. LOL. And, as a person who has not held a paying job for decades, I've dealt with the "I wish I had time to...." comments from people looking in to how I spend my time. blah blah blah or other comments suggesting that I somehow had more than the standard 24 day we all are fortunate to have. I sometimes remind the speaker that we all have the same number of hours in the day, and we all choose how we spend them. That's what it is. A choice. Period. We all get the same time, no more .. no less. Rant over, and this is your last post? ACK! I waited too long!!!Laurelnoreply@blogger.com