bread&tea

I didn't wear shoes today. I'm pretty sure that whoever first thought of carpet, was standing in a patch of grass with no shoes on. Then the thought struck, "Wow, this feels really soft and squashy. Wouldn't it be neat to have this in my house?" After an unsuccessful trial period of growing grass on the parlor floor, they decide to replicate it with man-made materials. Boom- carpet is patented and sold. Or maybe somebody loved their pet named car so much that they wanted their floor covered in furry stuff and called it car + pet. Hm. Nah, I don't believe that either. Anyway. I didn't wear shoes today. I slipped off the flip-flops (tongue twister!) and padded through our backyard, and it was a delight . Man recreates, manages, alters, embellishes. But isn't better at making things than God is. Carpet is embellished- "perfected" by man to be more pleasing to the sense of touch, softer on the feet. And through familiarity and uniformit...

Life is a lot of things, and one of those things is making messes. And however much I'd like to talk about messes being a good influence and gaining experience and growing from my mistakes and how positive it can all be....I won't. Because despite whatever gain I can sieve out them, that tactic requires looking back. And looking back is not nearly as happy as looking forward, for those who have less life to look back on. No discouragement to those who learn from their mistakes, those whom I applaud for facing their past and dealing with it, that is great; that's simply not what I'm going to (apparently rant) talk about. So many messes. So many mistakes. There goes the egg, on the floor. Holding the cat that bites, next to my face. Sitting in a wheeled chair, on a slanted floor. Eating prunes, to many days in a row. Saying I'll do the dusting, and forgetting to dust. Doing the laundry, but not the dishes. Remembering I need to eat something, and grabbing a cookie...

There is a fundamental vicious circle that all bloggers must face, involving two points. One: Readers will not come back to a blog unless there is new material, if they come back at all. This is why it is necessary to keep up a somewhat steady stream of content. (on that note, it's easy to see why I don't have a lot of readers) Two: Due to a continual flow of content, what you have written already gets methodically buried in a mountain of choices. Readers rarely look into the archive of posts, effectively losing out on a huge source of content, which supposedly is one of the reasons they came in the first place. Those paragraphs can be shortened to: In general, readers don't come without consistent updates they can expect, and readers don't come to browse, but to read what's new. In general. There are quite an amount of people who will dare to float their mouse over to the archive sidebar of underrated treasure (as I call it now), and venture to randomly sel...