I promised I would make my next blog positive, and I’m a man of my word. First I will provide a brief redress of my last post. I read a short blurb last night in yesterday’s Salt Lake Tribune that addressed the recently ended, 45-day general legislative session. The main topic was that even though legislators fulfilled most of their constituents’ desires, the public would focus on the negative products of the Legislature. The Tribune said it was “human nature.” Even though I don’t believe I am included, necessarily, as a constituent of the average Utah politician, this article caused me to reassess my attitude.
This is an especially big deal because I have recently been posting angry and flagrant messages of unhappiness on my blog – a space I usually devote to positive messages of hope. I noticed I was getting significantly more readers when I ranted on about what makes me mad about the world around me. While I can’t guarantee that this won’t happen again in the future, I can say “Shame on me.” I apologize to the few readers who enjoy my inspirational words. I will continue to write these things, but perhaps I will mix things up from time to time. After all, a writer needs readers.
Yesterday was a lovely day. The sun was shining all day, until it went down at seven o’clock. The beauty of daylight savings in the springtime is that even though we lose that hour of sleep, we gain an hour of daylight. I anxiously anticipate the vernal equinox and, with it, warmer weather, longer days and happily chirping avian creatures. This will be another year filled with road trips, river trips and long hikes in the mountains – hopefully with beautiful friends.
I decided last night that I was able to go to sleep before midnight, so I took advantage of it and did. I was able to wake early this morning, thus fulfilling the first sentence of Benjamin Franklin’s adage, “Early to bed and early to rise…” Now if I can live up to the predicate of that statement, I’m in good shape, “…makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”
I really don’t have anything more to say right now. I just woke up, Spring Break is over and it’s time to crank out the last six weeks of this semester. I promise to be more positive throughout my smatterings of political commentary and thoughts on text messaging 🙂
Whitney Afterdark 