Priorities and a Failure to Create
As I checked in today, I was amazed and a little saddened to see that it has actually been a week since my last blog post.
That might only have happened a couple of times in the 8+ years I have been part of this gig. Yikes...
Which got me to thinking about priorities, and the choices we have to make.
I should add the qualifier "in this day and age," because things are not as they once were. Priorities change...
The thing I realized is that I have less and less room in my life for things I do "just for fun," such as blogging, and even my art.
Although I have the alleged "freedom" of self-employment on my side, I have increasingly become mired down in a world where virtually all my attention and mental bandwidth must be directed towards income producing activities because the cost of living keeps rising, while my compensation for work is — at best — flat to trending down slightly.
That's not a lament, so much as just a reality, and a reality I likely share with millions of others, here in the US of A.
It's not that I don't want to keep up with my blog... I just can't afford to. And yes, I know we "get paid" for our contributions here... but not enough to navigate a world that costs $100+ per day to live in.
I know the economy here is bad because people — that would be my customers — have stopped buying at an alarmingly high rate, since the beginning of April... and a lot of my overseas buyers have simply stopped because they don't want to deal with US tariffs even if they don't apply to their purchases.
That does not bode well...
But we'll keep plodding forward, as we always do... plotting a path towards a smaller and smaller life. Which may not be such a bad thing... most of the world consumes far too much, as is!
And maybe that's what this whole "great reset" is about, in the end: giving up our endlessly consuming lives in favor of something more modest.
Thanks for stopping by, and have a great remainder of your week!
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Created at 2025.04.23 01:24 PDT
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I was wondering if you were okay. The can't afford to blog scenario is getting all too common now. There are only so many hours a day, and we need to utilise our time to do things that really do pay the bills.
Costs just keep going up and up. We have had a shitty April in the UK, as annual rises in most things have kicked in, at rates well above so called inflation.
Thanks for the concern! Things are just pretty cruddy here in the States, no matter what the news might be reporting. A lot of "ordinary" people are really struggling to get by.
Yeah we have a weekly zoom call with Mrs Ts family back in the states so keep upto date with some of the crap over there. Her eldest sister has now delayed her retirement date as money will be tight shall we say!