A Shout Out To My Friends Here At The Blogosphere & IRL

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 23601 – 1219

Here’s the haps:

Consistency. A word that I have seldom laid claim to. When I posted the “Remember” picture on 9/11 I didn’t think about how long it had been since my last post. That’s where my Herbdate came in handy. It was 34 days since my last post. That’s a long time but as life goes on I find myself needing to prioritize some things over others. The acronym IRL, which stands for “In Real Life” applies in my situation as in, IRL I have family members to help, I have people IRL depending on me and my assistance. IRL I also have two toddlers living here that I didn’t have before. They are not “in my care” as you might usually think of the term but as a Grandpa and (alleged) patriarch, everybody in the family is “in my care” besides the fact that conversations with two-year-olds and four-year-olds are scintillating.

And when one of them is sitting in your office chair dressed as a giant flamingo carrying a toy fish and says, “Spin me, Papa, spin me!” What is a real Grandpa to do? You spin the chair around. “Again!” and again and again. “What does a flamingo say, Grampa?” We find a video or two showing Flamingos. My desk and computer sit out in one of the front rooms which can obviously lead to distraction. With everything else that comes with day-to-day living with disabled people, chores, to-dos, honey-dos, and the little details of everyday life that come; it limits my time to think and write creatively to either later evening or early morning hours. I also have commitments to prayer and reading and studying the Bible plus a Sunday School class to prepare for. I have no complaints about any of it but I do have to prioritize and something either has to go or be put on a lower priority or the back burner. This blog is one of those lower priorities right now.

But,

A couple of things happened to me this week that made me rethink how I want to handle this blog and what my priorities should be. I was encouraged by a couple of haps. One thing that happened was that I received an email. “Wooo…Big deal, Herb! You got an email.” Okay, okay, I get many, many emails but what made this one stand out was the fact that I have met this person and know them to be a good and kind and caring person who simply asked whether I was taking another blogging break.

The other thing that happened this week was that Boromax over at ~ Trivial Music Silliness ~ recommended my blog to his readers. I take this as a high honor, indeed. You should check him out he has all sorts of subject matter and an eclectic, sometimes esoteric taste in music. He also does a variety of other things as well.

Anyway,

What this means to you, dear readers, is I will try harder to pay attention to my blogging and try to post something once or twice a week rather than once a month.

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