Learning Is Easy--Making Sense of What You Know?

Well, that's a whole different part of the Zeitgeist.  It's like being the only person in the neighborhood understanding flotation when the water's rising, you've got the fixings to make a boat, and everyone is going into full panic mode.  What do you do?

Slap someone silly, grab the paddle and hope for the best?  Slap yourself silly and tell yourself that panic is the normal thing to do?  Just grab the paddles, hop in the boat, making sure you have the stuff, pets, water and food that will make survival possible, and get moving?

Well, yes.

Pick one, and just do it.

Make a decision and do it.  Make a stand, take a position, grab a paddle, save who and what you can, and just do whatever it takes to do it.

That is the way of things these days.  Survival mode 24/7.

We forget though that after the flood goes down comes the living part.  The long time between crises, or the short time,.  Pick one.  But there is usually a gap, whether it is only long enough to catch your breath or long enough to write a book or two.

It is into that gap we must also venture, applying what we know.  Teaching what we have learned.  Living.  It is the stuff that happens when you make other plans. 

Doing it well means doing it.  With a certain amount of skill, grace, wit and humor.

There are, in these days, precious few gaps between anything.  Some days, it feels like none, like the busy-ness of life is the business of life, and there is no life in there at all.  Just doing.  Meeting crisis to crisis, until fatigue sets in.

Perhaps the greatest lesson is this.  Not every challenge is a crisis.  Not every thing that happens is an emergency.  Not every task is urgent.  Not every rain is a flood on the cusp.

And that is where making sense of it all comes in.  Just there.  There is time, there will be time, and you must often take the time and do it right, if you are doing something.  Don't rush.  Let it settle in, and do it right.  From that, the sense of it will come.