DOWNSTATE

Tuesday morning and this Old Fella sits down to write a few lines…to reconnect with our site.
It is a commonplace that when one does not write…it becomes difficult to write.
It is true.
As the school teacher-turned-prostitute said to her less-than-successful client, “We will do it over and over ‘till we get it right.”

Sorry.

We are depressed at how little writing we have been doing.

As we used to tell our students, we have been suffering from literary constipation.

But the thoughts are still there….

And  liberating them is always so much easier when doing so has been a habit, not a rarity.

Our routine lately has been that of verbal rather than written communication.

At any rate, we are now back from our trip South and our most recent trip North…and the summer season, with whatever it holds, stretches before us.

We hope and pray that we will now be able and willing to put our words where our mouth is and share a thought or two or even more.

To paraphrase Dr. Samuel Johnson, “He who is tired of […family, community, national, and world affairs] is tired of life.”

We are not tired of life.