Woke up today and my brain just froze

Wow, I woke up today ready to head back to work after the holiday (yesterday seemed to not count somehow) and I sat down at my keyboard and just…froze. It was not really writers’ block, it just felt like coming to a full stop and not being able to start moving again. I stared at my screen for too long, clicked and read through the usual morning news sites without absorbing much, then went upstairs to read for a few minutes. I told Michael I felt paralyzed and he just said (kindly), “Sharpen the saw” (his favorite Franklin Covey mantra).

I did eventually get into gear, which looked like doing laundry and attacking ants in the kitchen–some tasks just cannot be ignored–but I have not written the epic blog post I had planned. It is swimming in my mind but I just can’t do it justice right now.

Here’s the good news: I am reading Ariel Gore‘s latest book Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness, and it turns out she may be saying what I wanted to say better than I could. She is incisive and says things that sound revolutionary because they go against the conventional wisdom but make so much sense you think, why hadn’t I seen it that way before?

So stay tuned…I hope to finish her book in the next day or so and then maybe the blog post will materialize.

The fact that I have even written this much will have to count as success for today!