A very unimportant subject
Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2012 1:23 pm
This is not important at all, but I felt I should raise it nonetheless.
Sometimes you can get distracted by the big, bold issues, when it is the little things that are really getting in the way, and stopping things from running smoothly. It's often only with the benefit of hindsight, though, or the fresh view provided by an outsider, that this becomes clear.
There are some that would no doubt say it is too trivial to even comment upon, but in my experience, nothing is too trivial to talk about, and often things that initially appear extremely slight eventually prove to be quite critical.
Of course, bush poetry is no exception.
Are you with me?
I have sounded several people out already, and they have more or less said, "Oh, how could you be bothered? You're wasting everybody's time!"
Well, perhaps they are right, but I am going to back my own judgement on this nonetheless, and press ahead.
How often have you heard, "Oh, it'll sort itself out in the wash."
Well, sometimes it just doesn't. I don't know about you, but my wash can get quite muddled. In fact, the wash quite often makes thing worse, not better. Often things only get sorted out when you peg them on the line, which is why my analogy is so apt, I feel. Even little things can benefit from a good airing.
It might be a little thing to me and to you, say, but if it is also a little thing to everybody in the room, it suddenly becomes quite a big thing, because it brings us together. I don't think anybody can argue with that.
Often the solution comes through the discussion and the sharing -or airing. And so I hope it will be here. Simply by stating the problem - clearly and uncompromisingly, no matter that it is - or appears to be - trivial, the solution may begin to emerge.
Of course, it might not happen straight away, and it is true, it may never happen, but given time, it just might, and that is the important thing, I think. We have to have hope.
So, think about it. Don't brush it aside, even if that is your first impulse. Mull it over for a while. Sleep on it. Or beside it. Or under it, even. Whatever it takes. There's no hurry, though I would quite like to have it resolved by next Tuesday if possible.
Sometimes you can get distracted by the big, bold issues, when it is the little things that are really getting in the way, and stopping things from running smoothly. It's often only with the benefit of hindsight, though, or the fresh view provided by an outsider, that this becomes clear.
There are some that would no doubt say it is too trivial to even comment upon, but in my experience, nothing is too trivial to talk about, and often things that initially appear extremely slight eventually prove to be quite critical.
Of course, bush poetry is no exception.
Are you with me?
I have sounded several people out already, and they have more or less said, "Oh, how could you be bothered? You're wasting everybody's time!"
Well, perhaps they are right, but I am going to back my own judgement on this nonetheless, and press ahead.
How often have you heard, "Oh, it'll sort itself out in the wash."
Well, sometimes it just doesn't. I don't know about you, but my wash can get quite muddled. In fact, the wash quite often makes thing worse, not better. Often things only get sorted out when you peg them on the line, which is why my analogy is so apt, I feel. Even little things can benefit from a good airing.
It might be a little thing to me and to you, say, but if it is also a little thing to everybody in the room, it suddenly becomes quite a big thing, because it brings us together. I don't think anybody can argue with that.
Often the solution comes through the discussion and the sharing -or airing. And so I hope it will be here. Simply by stating the problem - clearly and uncompromisingly, no matter that it is - or appears to be - trivial, the solution may begin to emerge.
Of course, it might not happen straight away, and it is true, it may never happen, but given time, it just might, and that is the important thing, I think. We have to have hope.
So, think about it. Don't brush it aside, even if that is your first impulse. Mull it over for a while. Sleep on it. Or beside it. Or under it, even. Whatever it takes. There's no hurry, though I would quite like to have it resolved by next Tuesday if possible.