Keeping It Simple

Exploration is risky.

Desired destinations spark journeys.   Establishing plan and provision is wise.  Beating back curiosity is the trick.  Travel is a simple exercise, if kept simple.

On the way, people and ideas present; both demand time and attention.  Linear efficiency breeds punctuality.  Titans prioritize, remain focused and finish well.  Possibilities, however, trip up well-meaning travelers.

Ideas derail plans and exhaust provisions.  Stick to the script; to the map; to the process.  Travelers heed but explorers hear.  Pathfinders ask open-ended questions.  Explorers, like travelers, use beaten paths, but travelers arrive on time.  Explorers opt for prompts, liminal flutters and seeming inconveniences.  Choices bring consequences: unbeaten paths sometimes render explorers inefficient.

Sometimes choosing to risk is the reward.  

An explorer is someone who's explored today.

                            A writer is someone who has written something today. ~ J.A. Jance 

 A writer asked, "Who is on your [writing] team?"  A simple question finds a blogger pawning the afternoon's punctuality to pursue the answer.   There are three kinds of members on the writing team.

• The Dead:  Quieted voices are sometimes the loudest.  Voices of the innocent ring in guilty ears.  Martyrs posthumously inspire.  Blogging is informed by voices of dead writers.  Louder since open-ended traveling derailment, voices include Tim Keller, Robert Browning, James Weldon Johnson, Diogenes and Gardner Taylor.

• The Quick:  Eavesdropping pays.  A mentor counseled a protégé, "But you must be clear-headed about everything. Endure suffering. Do the work of an evangelist. Devote yourself completely to your ministry."  Only a living mentee can follow such directions, for there is no work, device or turning in the grave.  Living members of the blogging team are Cal Newport, Pat Moran, Eric Metaxas, Steve Shadrach and Robert Caro.

Publication is generosity. ~ Seth Godin

• The Generous:  If publication is generosity, Zeytin has been most kind.  A stray dog, filmed on the streets of Istanbul, Zeytin provided withering sociological commentary.  To the Byzantine tramp's disruption, a Psalmist adds, "The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands...They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them." (ref)  

                    Jabez and Zeytin have been most generous contributors to the team.  

                                          To write well, one must read well. ~ Jonathan L. Walton 

Travel is simple.  

Exploration is risky.