* I started 2020 by taking part in the Michael Hyatt BusinessAccelerator program. You know, before 2020 made many of us question whether there was any business left to accelerate. What you are about to read was written before the world shut down, but I think it is still fitting and hopefully helpful to a handful of you out there.

“It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave. It is hard to desecrate a grove and change your mind. The very holy mountains are keeping mum. We doused the burning bush and cannot rekindle it; we are lighting matches in vain under every green tree.” — Annie Dillard, Teaching A Stone To Talk

You were made to scale the mountains
But you must write.
You were knit together to undo the hearts of humankind
But you must write today the drudgery and details of a thing.

Words fight their way up and out, bending and propelling the body to guide them into daylight. 

They’ve been in here too long; it’s getting cramped.

When no perceivable cohesion is formed, still they come.

I pull up a blanket and cozy into the headboard which, today, serves as my desk chair, the pillow a most comfortable desk.

I stare blankly for what seems an hour. I am frozen in false expectations.

I’ve been told what people read, what is appropriate and what is fussy, what’s helpful and what’s self-serving.