I haven’t been busy.
I’m reading a lot of different stuff.
I’ve got a lot of opinions that keep changing so I’m not too anxious to publish my amorphous thinking.
I blog about education topics, but I haven’t been thinking about education as much as usual.
I’ve been tweeting my thoughts which for the most part summarizes my thoughts in 140 to 560 characters.
I haven’t done much of anything else, either. Just chilling out and taking up space and oxygen. Being a bystander instead of a participant.
But thinking is good. Withdrawing from the hubbub is good. Listening to what everybody else is saying is good. Watching what other people are doing is good.
Criteria for good:
- allows opportunities to update general and specific impressions
- sharpens listening skills
- smooths over sharp edges, polishes up neglected surfaces
- creates a new normal
- generates sense of well-being and comfort
- encourages sloughing off of worn-out, shriveled up, over-used thoughts and ideas that have gone stale and are starting to stink
I can barely remember what I thought was so darned important by the end of the first semester. See the above criteria for how that happened.
To maintain this current state of being I intend to avoid all people who are:
- oblivious
- driven
- sarcastic
- perky
- phony
- manipulative
Life’s too short to entertain such irritations. My tolerance level is much higher for other human foibles, but for my own sake, I know what to avoid in others as well as in myself.
