Let's be honest here: we're not bloggers. Or diary writers. But from time to time, even the dimmest bulb flickers. If we have anything intersting to say... let me rephrase that. If we feel the need to express something... No. Again, that's not it. If we feel like saying something, whether it is interesting, or expressive, meaningful, or not, we'll say it here. You have my word.
Let's give it a try. When Brenda and I got married, one of the things we told ourselves we wanted to do was live simple lives. Simplicity, after all, is a virture, so they say. It made me wonder: is living simply in itself simple? How does one hack away the inessentials, pare down to the minimum? Poverty, perhaps. It's easier to live simply when one is on a budget just above the line of poverty, one might suppose. The Franciscan remedy. But being on a budget and living simply are not the same thing.