complaint and answer

Out with it. First post: what's this about, what's the purpose? I used to be whimsical--a lyric poet who composed a poem a day, with no small ceremony, in a collage-covered notebook I'd pieced together in what remains ones of the most fecundly-focused late nights I care to recall.

These days, I am all business. I work for a law firm, edit on a freelance basis, and pitch articles to further my dreamed-of-career as an essayist. The easy inspiration and self-confident discipline of my early days have passed, but I've gotten tired of criticizing myself for failing to produce something, for failure to actually write (the verb comes before the noun, I chide), on a daily basis.

So I will write something on a daily basis--something potentially useful but concisely poetic, and, furthermore, a reasonable, attainable, and measurable expectation. One sentence a day, minimum.

"So let it be written, so let it be done."~ my memory of a recurring line in the TV version of The Ten Commandments