Well, it’s January,
and,
I have the cold from Hell,
and,
so does mom,
no joy in Mudville.
Business,
is at an all time low,
and,
I can’t figure out,
what I’m doing wrong.
Feeling pretty down,
pretty low.
Not sure I picked the best of times,
to start my broccoli reading,
but,
start I did.
Be it resolved and all that…
Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson,
wow,
talk about fibrous and dry:-)
Took me the better part of an afternoon,
to make it through,
twenty-eight pages.
Did I enjoy it?
Nope.
Did I learn something?
probably.
He has an interesting viewpoint,
Emerson,
a little too 19 th century,
a little too God ladden,
for my taste,
but,
a worthy plea,
for non-conformism,
and,
listening to your own true voice,
Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist,
and,
Insist on yourself; never imitate.
He was a righteous man,
was Emerson,
doesn’t strike me as a fun guy,
but,
broccoli isn’t fun,
but,
it is nourishing:-)
I think I will continue with essays,
for the next little while,
but,
tomorrow,
no Emerson,
tomorrow E.B White,
a great essayist,
and,
writer of children’s classics,
like Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little.
The book I have chosen,
is Essays Of E.B. White.
From the foreword,
The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.
Sounds promising,
and,
not a little bit like certain bloggers…
Later girls,
thanks for listening,
BB
Feel better BB! I had the cold from hell too. It arrived before Christmas. After I slept sitting up for 3 days I got antibiotics for bronchitis. I hope your cold has the courtesy to remain just a cold!
Good luck with the business — I’ve had an explosion of new customers this past week. I’m actually over-run – wonderful problem to have.
I’m sorry to hear you were sick(: It’s just a cold I have but, a bad one. I’m glad to hear your business is going so well. As far as mine is concerned, well, everything changes and as cliche as it sounds change is good:-)
BB: I’m so sorry to hear you’re sick, and that you’re feeling low. Sending you virtual chicken soup and lots of blankets and a hug full of vitamin C + D.
Business is a challenging thing, isn’t it, specially selling to the public. Maybe you aren’t doing anything wrong at all and it’s just a lull. What does Shakespeare + Co., do this time of year? 😉
You’re so brave to take on Emerson and his notion of self reliance. Wow.
Thank you, for the good wishes and the virtual get well stuff, I’m feeling better, by no means cured, but, better. You are right about business, there are lulls, especially in January, the thing is I take things too personal, hard not to when it’s your little place, and I don’t want things to be impersonal because then they become about profit and bottom line and not about doing something you love, fine line, I’ll keep workin’ on it. Emerson is rather dry, even staid, but, there is much wisdom there, needs to be ingested, little by little.
You are most welcome. I’m glad to hear you’re feeling better.
Ah yes, it is hard…that fine line between filtering the world through a rational, objective, it’s-never-about-me lens or the other one, the lens of always taking in things personally, because after all, your world is all about our self, even if by design we get to our self with, through or without others. And so: in the world that isn’t all about you is your world that is all about you. Oh goddess, I just made myself dizzy. Need to grab a silk fan and drape myself over the divan 😉
all that to say: you be you, change as you want to and need to and don’t worry. If you find yourself worrying, look at… boots. 🙂
you make me smile, big beaming smile:-)
Boots, eh? Yep, that always works and plaid shirts:-)