The Need to Blink

Sometimes you need to blink.

Perhaps, you played that game as a kid—you know—where you try to see who can stare the longest without blinking.  Maybe you and a friend stared directly at each other.  You stared until your eyes watered.  You stared until your vison went out-of-focus.

But eventually someone gave in.

After the first person blinked, everyone happily blinked.   And blinking your eyes felt better than anything else in the world.   

The blink reset everything.  

While in Aruba, it occurred to me that I need to blink—in terms of producing a daily blog, I mean.  I need to stop forcing daily blogs.  I may need to allow days to pass without a blog.  For one thing, I feel my blogs have been suffering from serving quantity rather than quality in their measure.  In recent weeks, I have been very frustrated by an increasing occurrence of repeating themes, spelling errors, typos, etc.

I will not stop blogging.  I enjoy it!  My goal is to provide a well-rested blog with more horsepower.

One of my intentions is to (as I have done in recent months) devote more time to other writing projects.  The first project is a technical book in digital multimeters.  The other us a telling of my late wife’s life, which is hugely beautiful and tragic at the same time.  I have many dozens of pages started on each of these projects.

I am at a loss for words on what I need to say next.  I know what I want to say, but nobody has yet invented words big enough, bright enough, and strong enough to convey everything.  So here goes: My sincerest thanks to all you who have stopped by to see me daily at the blog.  Having you out there has been both humbling and gratifying for me.

-- Mitchell Hegman

Note: Later today I will finally be arriving back home in beautiful Montana!