A blogger I read, Seldom Speedy aka Kent Peterson, for years has posted a page per day, writing the words with one of his manual typewriters. He types the page, then scans or photographs it and posts that as his blog entry, sometimes along with photos he's snapped that day with his digital point-and-shoot camera. I've been constantly impressed and somewhat amazed by his tenacity for blogging this way on the daily, and have been rather enamored with his creative, deliberate, and mostly "analog" approach to life. His blogs are always interesting and insightful.
Well, recently Kent and his wife Christine went to Las Vegas for their son's wedding, spending a week there with family and friends. He intended to continue blogging every day with a small portable typewriter. But his routine was interrupted by all the goings-on associated with the wedding and constant social activity, so he missed some days while there. Then, on his return home to Wisconsin, he got seriously ill, and his very short blog entries made it obvious he was struggling to get them out. Then, a few days go, he posted an entry with the title "Taking A Break," announcing that his daily entries were done and that he needed time to regroup energetically and creatively.
This all reminds me of reading about Lou Gehrig and Cal Ripkin Jr., baseball's "iron men," who each set exceedingly long records for playing in every single game over the course of several seasons. Finally, they were unable to keep it up, and had to let go of the string. At some point, life interrupts such feats, and it's okay. Seldom Speedy, you had a wonderful run but when the daily grind becomes an object in itself, it's healthy to realize that you can stop and take a step or two back, because life is more than a consecutive string of days doing the same thing without fail.
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