Nuthin' (Nothing Sucks)

What do you write when nothing comes to mind? Why is it that when you sit down to write, every thought that you've had in the past two days flees from your brain? Why is it that I can't drum up even the slightest bit of passion in writing, so I'm reduced to nothing.

Is nothing bad? Right now Nothing is all I have. I have searched for those things that inflame my passions, good or bad, and have not found them. It may be the snow. There's nothing like 14 inches of fresh, white snow to make someone just feel content.

Is the real reason that I am writing this blog because I am not content usually? I must admit that that is probably true. I see things that are not right and want to write about them. I want to point out the stupid, quirky, harmful and unusual things that I see and feel around me. I guess I get more of the stupid and quirky because I am a lawyer. I get to see and feel people's pain as they come to me with their lives in shambles and ask me to help.

However, today I can't quite come up with enough passion or energy to think about things that aren't right. In fact, today I feel pretty content and happy just to have sat around the house in front of the woodstove (which felt pretty good after snowblowing the drive) and just experienced a nice day. The real question is whether it is ok to feel good about a day when there is always an injustice in the world to fight (or at least poke fun at).

Well, there may be something in that "one day of rest" thing found in the Bible. It may be that the experience of contentment and joy is the power that propels us to do our best to make contentment and joy possible for ourselves and others. I guess I believe that the power of good in the world can overcome the evil that we see sround us every day....no matter how powerful the evil seems.

Blawgerman