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Blog 534 – 02.03.2017

Do You Write Everyday?

A friend that I met not long ago who is following my blog asked me that question. I do and I love writing and I hope it shows in my writing. I write whatever strikes my fancy and I know that we live in very polarized and intolerant times but my aim is always to bridge the gulf, to find common ground, to promote peace, love and understanding. My opinions are my own as are yours but if we keep trying to talk and trying to listen we can still understand one another. Some would play on our fears, our mistrust, and our misunderstandings to profit and get power from us for themselves but we need not be dupes or taken in by such maneuvering.

By all means speak your mind but understand others may see it differently. It does not always have to be your way, my way, or the highway. We can sometimes get it wrong and others too but we really can get along if we try. We need not see everyone who thinks differently as an enemy. If you read something in one of my blogs that sets you off consider for a moment what it is that is upsetting you so much. A day or so ago I got really heated about a comment on one of my blogs. The person was saying that I really ought to retract one sentence and man I lost it and said some pretty harsh lines like, “Who appointed you my editor.” I have some pretty strong opinions about my First Amendment right to free speech and even my calling as a writer. It is a call I have answered with all my heart and it is a gift I intended to perfect and not misuse. But I really did get my Irish up thinking someone was telling me what to write or what to think. And then I cooled off a bit and heard myself say, “I will consider what you are saying.” Why did I say that? – Because I began to wonder what was I really getting so worked up about?

I mean good writers, much better than I am, need editors. And actually the more sure I am of something the more closely I need to question it. Opinions ought to be held lightly so we can more easily let them go when new or better information arrives. We need to guard our thinking but not so much from new thoughts as from the trap of of refusing to consider new ideas and new ways of thinking. “Thinking outside the box” is where creativity and new experiences are to be found.

As I sit at my desk writing this blog to post to all of my friends and fans in the morning I am looking at the Louise Hay You Can Do It desk calendar. Today’s page fits so well with my blog. I am so glad that she writes every day and so do I.

Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White