Thursday, August 7, 2025

This is the seventy-third installment of West Wind, your weekly drop of thoughts, ideas, and info for this Season. It’s been a little while, hasn’t it?

We’re shifting into a different season around here, one that is marked by some different time boundaries. Both of my children recently started public school, after having been homeschooled or schooled at home for the past several years. We have a commute for the first time in a long time, which means changes to the schedule. One of the reasons I had been writing daily posts was because I had daily time to do it, at least 1-2 hours every morning. Now things look a little different, which is why it has been so quiet lately.

Bi-weekly Dispatch posts seem more reasonable at this point, plus whatever I can squeeze in here and there. But there I go, trying to set myself up to expectations again. Hmm. I think a lot of it has to do with the whole creator economy mindset that is so prevalent. In order to be relevant, I need to be producing content. Writing regular posts, tweeting, producing short videos, or whatever. The problem is, that sort of dishonors the content that I’ve already created.

I have three books published and for sale, and sold them at a recent gathering. All of them, which was very heartening. Also, the people who bought them never asked what I was writing currently, or when the next book would be released. They saw what was in front of them and appreciated that. It’s something I would do well to remember.

The other resistance I keep running into is a reluctance to repeat content, or post about the same thing multiple times. I don’t want to bore readers with the same old thing, but that presumes that someone has opened every single one of my emails and remember everything that I’ve written. Heck, I don’t even remember everything I’ve put up on here sometimes, so how could anyone else?

So enjoy this email, because it is here today. What’s coming tomorrow? Who knows. (Actually I do)