Hiatus Half-Explained
So, my life changed big-time starting in August. The bright side is that the changes were growthful for me, if not all pleasant. The brighter side is that some of them were very pleasant indeed. The down side, at least as regarding my blogging career, is that I can’t write about them, not in any detail.
I’ll just give some hints: One change was the answer to two decades of intense and desparate prayer, and I can’t write about it, because even changing the names won’t protect the innocent as much as is necessary. Another change involved losing my only consulting client, so that I have to rebuild my consulting business from almost-scratch. (This is a growthful and even rather pleasant change because I’d been wanting to make the transition for some time, and this compels me to do what I might otherwise have avoided due to inertia.) Another change involved my having to speak, for the first time ever, to an on-duty homicide detective. It was a shocking and stressful introduction to the very hard lives some folks lead in Oakland.
In all three cases, even protecting the innocent isn’t the whole reason for not writing about it. Sometimes even the guilty need to be cut a break.
Now I’m back, and my church work is exciting and my consulting work hasn’t paid a dime in months but is still exciting and life is incredibly good. And I hope I’ll be able to blog consistently. Even the pleasantest of surprises can be stressful, and I think I’ve had enough for a while.