Deferral Pattern
When things get busy, the first thing to go always seems to be the blog. I’m not sure how it is that I’m now working from home, spending minimal time on my daily commute… and yet it feels like I’m busier than ever. And more behind on things than ever.
I guess this continues the trend of feeling unbalanced. I’m still wondering why it seems to be kicking in now, after several solid months of being isolated at home.
The original intent of this blog was to have it be daily, a kind of promise that if you visited each day I’d have something new to share each day. While I’ve kept to the spirit of having posts per day, of late I tend to go back and retroactively post.
Instead of a daily thing, I scrape for a small window of time to then go back and post up a whole series of recaps.
It’s harder to find meaningful things to post each day, when most days follow the same sequence (computer, TV, sleep). But maybe it’s even more essential to keep this up, to find those things that make one day different from the one before. I had that philosophy regarding the blog, once upon a time a long while ago… and perhaps it’s now being put more fully to the test.
[photo via Kelly Sikkema]
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You are a long-time blogger, so you probably remember this too. When I first started blogging 19 years ago, I found it gave me a new perspective on life. Everything around me became a potential blog post. This sort of renewed vision is one of the reasons why I continue to blog to this day. (another reason being I love comments–hence why I make a purposeful intention to comment on others’ blogs, because I myself love comments so much).
But I hear ya about sometimes it seems some days there’s a lack of unique perspective. Especially when living/working from home all the time. I miss being downtown everyday, and the commute. But it’s good to keep up that daily commitment! These days, I’m trying to remind myself to just blog anything that comes to mind. I even gave up Twitter for a week, so I would blog about my ideas, instead of getting the quick hit on Twitter. It’s so tempting to just quickly tweet something out (but then I never end up blogging about it)
Matt Maldre (May 10, 2020 at 8:37 pm)You bring up good points – there’s always something new to post, some new perspective or thought. Each day is different, and I know an impulse of wanting to do a daily blog was to re-enforce that notion: there are new things to see/experience, so long as we are open to looking.
As another long-time blogger, do you feel fatigue? Does it ever feel more like an obligation or a chore, rather than a thing that provides nourishment? As much as it feels like a grind sometimes, when I do spend time blogging (and it’s not just throwaway fluff), I do feel pretty good afterwards.
avoision (May 13, 2020 at 9:05 pm)