In everything I do but especially when I’m doing something for the sole reason that I find it rewarding , enjoyable, and want to do it — but something that no one particulary needs me to do — I’m am always running out of time.
In fact, that pretty much sums up many days: Out of time.
Granted, my ADD means I have (have always had and will always have) issues with time management.
But is that it. Or am I trying to do things I ran out of time to do long ago?
Here are some of the people writing about some of the stuff I wish I had time to write about, for June 22nd through June 23rd:
I take the DC Metro almost every day — once in the morning and once in the evening. But not yesterday.
Investigators are trying to determine why a Washington commuter train rear-ended another train stopped on the tracks Monday, sending one train on top of the other, killing seven people and injuring at least 70.
On Tuesday, District of Columbia officials lowered the number of fatalities in Monday’s fatal accident from nine to seven. D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty said during a Tuesday morning press conference that officials are “going to let the investigation run its course” and added that hopefully the number will not exceed seven by the end of the day.
Fenty has called the crash the deadliest accident in the history of the Washington transit system, which connects the city with its suburbs in Maryland and Virginia.
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And along my route, these are the signs.
Here are some of the people writing about some of the stuff I wish I had time to write about, for June 20th through June 22nd:
Here are some of the people writing about some of the stuff I wish I had time to write about, for June 19th from 07:51 to 17:27:
When Dr. George Tiller was murdered, it immediately occurred to me to write the series I’ve been publishing all this week. That’s because my first thoughts were of the women who faced heartbreaking choices after getting devastating news late into what were often very much wanted pregnancies. What choices would they have now that there was one less doctor who offered the procedure they need? What options does the other side offer?
The point I tried to make in the series was that opponents of legal abortion have not offered these women any alternative, except one. The other point I wanted to make was one that I remembered from a previous post that actually inspired the series posted this week.
Talk is cheap, and easy. So is telling people where they should be than meeting them where they are. So is taking away the choices of some families, rather than looking at the realities of all families and changing in order to help all families, whatever their circumstances. It’s easier, and simpler, to see that help as “rewarding” them for “immoral” choices, rather than choosing to help all families in order to help - and heal - our whole society. It’s easier not to see helping “them” as helping us, because it doesn’t require us to change.
That’s the intentional choice we’re making. Still.
Anyway, after writing the series, I wanted repost the piece that inspired it. So here it is.
In the previous post, I wrote that neither posthumous abortion rights icon Gerri Santoro or the anonymous nine-year-old raped and impregnated by her father are representative of the women who sought Dr. Tiller’s services, or who seek late-term abortion in general. It’ safe to presume that neither of them wanted to be pregnant, each for her own reasons. Opponents of legalized abortion in all case would have both of them give birth.
There’s no way I know of to come up with exact numbers, but many of the women who sought Dr. Tiller’s services, and who seek late-term abortion in general, seem to be women who very much want to be pregnant, but found out well into their pregnancies that there were severe complications, as Dr. Tiller himself pointed out in a 1991 interview.
I meant to add these two videos to the previous post, but time (as usual) was not on my side.
I have the last post in the series I wanted to write two weeks ago but only started at the end of last week — because the other post I wanted to write had already been written several times over and there was nothing much more to say.
I’ll try to get it posted this afternoon. (Does anyone read blogs on Friday afternoon?)
The economic downturn is definitely touching everybody. It appears that the Queenis running out of money for palace expenses.
So, Obama still sneaks the occasional cigarette? Eh. I’m not that concerned. Given the stresses of his job, if he only grabs an occaional cigarette (having been a habitual smoker in the past), he’s doing pretty good. It’s an extremely hard habit to break.
OK. Call me crazy, but when you basically steal $50 billion and ruin a lot of lives in the process, you don’t get to ask for 12 years in jail. (Which I think workds out to 1 year for every $4,166,666,666.67.) Well, you can ask, but…
It occurs to me lately, that I spend more time reading and promoting other people’s writing and ideas than I do working on my own. The result is that I spend most of my time helping others become more successful at what I want to do myself. I suppose I’m generating good karma of a sort. But does that mean I have to wait until the next lifetime for it to be my turn?
President Obama flooded with wedding invites? Hmm. Well, if we ever get married — legally, that is — I’ll send an invitation. But maybe I’ll address it to Mrs. Obama, and hope that she brings him along.
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