{"id":138,"date":"2009-07-27T17:46:32","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T17:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/yourcharmedlife\/2009\/07\/today-in-all-honesty-i-have-nothing-to-say.html"},"modified":"2009-07-27T17:46:32","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T17:46:32","slug":"today-in-all-honesty-i-have-nothing-to-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/yourcharmedlife\/2009\/07\/today-in-all-honesty-i-have-nothing-to-say.html","title":{"rendered":"Today, in all honesty, I have nothing to say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"fountian pen.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/fountian%20pen.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/span>Maybe I really am too old for blogging. It&#8217;s a strange medium. I embarked on this adventure with tremendous excitement that I&#8217;d share my charmed-life insights and that they would spark charmed-life insights among readers and all would be delightful. I believe that&#8217;s happened to a degree. But I don&#8217;t really &#8220;get&#8221; the medium.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/><\/div>\n<div>It seems to me that blogging is showing the world first drafts. I&#8217;m used to writing essays that I pour over, letting them gel for twenty-four hours, and then editing with a red pen. When I think one is approaching good, I read it aloud to be sure the cadence is there. Then I edit again. Then an editor or two or three edit it, as well. This is writing as I understand it. It&#8217;s what I Iove and why it makes me proud and happy to get to say, when someone asks, &#8220;I&#8217;m a writer.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/><\/div>\n<div>Today I don&#8217;t know what I am. I feel a little bit like a blacksmith, in a profession that is going extinct. It breaks my heart.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/><\/div>\n<div>I signed a contract that I would blog every weekday. But some days, I have nothing to say. I so value producing writing that is worth reading that it pains me to write when I know that I should be thinking, or walking, or listening to music, or having tea with a friend &#8212; feeding my soul so that tomorrow or the next day or one day next week I&#8217;ll have something truly worthy to<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tea.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/133\/import\/tea.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\u00a0write.\u00a0 <\/div>\n<div><br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/><\/div>\n<div>This is one of those days. I should be thinking, or walking, or listening to music, or having tea in a china cup with a wonderful book and good thoughts as company. It&#8217;s late but still light out. 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