A Necessary Breather? Who knows?

Break Time

I find it quite amazing that I’ve written about 60 articles, almost one per day. Today, I sat down ready to start another, but nothing I began felt right.

My original purpose was to write about the wisdom gained from 75 years on this earth. I still want to mostly continue that theme. But I’m realizing I may need a little time—time for ideas to settle and percolate—so I don’t end up forcing something just to stay on schedule.

I am going to start doing 3 posts per week, plus one spiritually-oriented for Sunday, not one each day as I have been doing, and see if I can keep up. At some point, I may need a necessary break to percolate a bit more, who knows.

Outside of these posts, I really haven’t written much before. So doing this at all feels like an achievement in itself. I think most of us accumulate things over the years that could be called wisdom—learned, earned, or sometimes forced upon us.

For me, wisdom has come more from failure than from success. When I look back at the challenges I’ve faced, I can see clearly how I handled them. Some I handled well. Some, not so well. But all of them taught me something.

Wisdom becomes a kind of gatekeeper. When similar situations show up again, it quietly steps forward. Even when the problem isn’t the same, wisdom often draws on lessons from elsewhere—patterns recognized, reactions softened, responses chosen more carefully.

Just the other day, my sister asked how I’ve been able to keep writing so many articles. I think she might be a mind reader, because I seem to be a little stuck right now.

And maybe that’s part of the lesson too—that knowing when to pause is also a form of wisdom.