#ChatTuesday #TuesdayThoughts: A room a little down the hall from rationality.

It’s not supposed to snow today, but someone needs to tell the sky that. It looks like a heavy, soft gray blanket, almost uniform in color. That can’t be good. Today is one of those I Don’t Wanna days. I didn’t want to work out, but I did and it was a really good one;…

I.L. Wolf

February 11, 2025

2–3 minutes

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It’s not supposed to snow today, but someone needs to tell the sky that. It looks like a heavy, soft gray blanket, almost uniform in color.

That can’t be good.

Today is one of those I Don’t Wanna days. I didn’t want to work out, but I did and it was a really good one; I don’t want to do what’s on my list for today; I didn’t want to sit down and write this post, and we’ll see how it all turns out.

Don’t worry, not because I have anything bad or upsetting to impart, but because I am feeling the malaise of, well…everything.

It’s a malaisey kind of time of year in a particularly malaisey kind of year and even my coffee is standing firm in its refusal to zip.

Metaphorically, of course.

Literally, and I probably shouldn’t drink the coffee.

I don’t think this post is going as well as the workout.

But for this moment, in this day, at this time, at this level of caffeinated, I’m doing the best I can. We’re doing the best we can.

I suspect, right now, so many of us feel a pressure to “do something,” and, somewhere, in a room a little down the hall from rationality, we think we can fix it.

All of it.

The whole thing.

Typing that out definitely throws open the curtains of that room, dust motes swirling in the finally-moving air. If you put it that way, it seems ridiculous because, unless you happen to be a member of Congress reading this, there aren’t huge, dramatic things we regular people can do.

But.

We can take small actions, small ones that, when they are multiplied by all of us, can have an impact.

The problem is those things, like voting, are not glamorous. And no one even hopped on that particular escape route, simple as it was.

Here we are.

There are some economic boycotts planned. Calling your congressional members, and writing them if you can’t get through. Supporting the local orgs helping the people already hurt by callous policies. Small things can add up.

Small things can make you feel more like you’re helping.

Because few of us have a flying cape in the closet.

Anyway, that’s it for me for today, I’ll leave it to you to decide how the post went.

Have a great Tuesday.

Buy me a cup of coffee!