Getting more upset lately: Too tense in situations that require calm, too easily angered when confronted and too disposed to lose control.
Maybe the stress comes from being too close to things. Maybe it stems from caring too much about what happens around us. Maybe it’s just frustration with the hidden agendas that seem to be so much a part of life nowadays.
Maybe. Not sure.
Maybe it’s exhaustion. Maybe it’s a case of just being wound too tight right now. Maybe a break is required. Maybe a vacation is in order. Maybe all that’s needed is a good night’s sleep.
Maybe.
For Halloween I’m going as an Amish businessman.
And maybe it’s a combination of all of the above…Too many disappointments,too little sleep, too many expectations, too little sleep and not enough time for you to have space and quiet to process all this and find the next opportunity. You’re grieving. Sometimes the field just has to lie fallow before the next crop can poke its shoots above ground. Maybe a long, combination retreat/vacation is just what’s needed. A little time, a lot of space…or is it the other way around.
Anyway, I’m pulling for you.
Hope you’ve been able to unwind by shooting bear and politicians… (Great shots, by the way.)
If only Floyd would pick up the Halloween tradition that’s being challenged in Boulder, Colo.
(Not that I’d want you to, uh, participate in the event… just unwind further by taking carefully tasteful pictures… and having a good laugh.)
Doug,
Grief is such a strange, but seemingly necessary, evil. Sometimes, its depth results from an accumulation of events. It’s not a cliche to say it takes time to recover. It is also a very personal experience. You know what we have gone through this year. Friends do help, even if all they can do is listen. We’re here. Reach out to us, Doug.